Buggy Boy

arcade track racing game for Commodore 64, 1987

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Use Control Port 2.

INTRODUCTION

Buggy Boy is the ultimate driving challenge. Be prepared for the bumpiest ride
of your life, over five of the roughest courses ever devised for four wheels.
You must race across terrain littered with boulders, trees, brickwalls and
fences whilst following the rough outline of the track through narrow
valleys, across even narrower bridges and through dark tunnels. 

Use your skill to dodge these obstacles or a jump over them by hitting the
logs that lie across the track, sending your buggy soaring through the air.
Driving over tree stumps and small rocks will tilt your buggy onto two wheels
allowing you to squeeze through narrow gaps; but don´t oversteer, as you will
lose control and return to four wheel drive!

The course is not your only eneamy. The clock is ticking and you will be
disqualified from the race if you do not complete each leg in the allowed
time limit. Extra time for the next leg can be collected by driving through
the dangerously placed "time" gates. For each "time" gate you drive through,
you get two seconds bonus time for the next leg after completion of the
actual one. 

Additional points are scored by collecting the flags and driving through the
score gates. Collecting the flags in the specified order (displayed in the
upper right corner of the screen) will give you a larger bonus, as will
bumping into the football!

When the going gets tough, put your foot to the floor (finger on the button?)
and get ready for more thrills and spills then ever before.

PLAYING INTSTRUCTIONS

Use the joystick in port two like this:
[UP] - Accelerate
[DOWN] - Decelerate
[LEFT] - Turn Left
[RIGHT] - Turn Right
[FIRE] - Change Gear

KEY-COMMANDS IN GAME

[RUN/STOP] - Toggle pause mode on/off.
[ARROW] - Quit current game (only if game is not paused).

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Some useful keyboard shortcuts
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       [PAUSE] - stop/continue game
          [F9] - quick load game state
         [F12] - quick save game state (still stored after leaving the site)
         [F10] - toggle performance meter
         [F11] - toggle fullscreen mode
  [ScrollLock] - quick switch control ports
    [PageDown] - make a screenshot (320x200)