Mangrove
arcade game for Commodore 64, 1983
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Mangrove is a single screen game where you have to protect healthy cells from
cancer cells in the Mangrove Swamps while trying to create more. You start
with 30 cells in the middle of the screen and from the edges appear the
cancer cells, and with a sight you move it around the scren hitting the
cancer cells to remove them. If a healthy cell is touched from a cancer cell
then it disappears and because healthy cells have to be touching four others
then any cells touching less than four disappear also. As you move the sight
around the screen you create healthy cells but you only have a short time to
get them to touch four cells or they disappear. You are armed with gamma
radiation and when used destroys any cancer cells on the screen but you only
have four but you do receive more after a certain score. If there are less
than twelve healthy cells on the screen then it is game over.
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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)
[F11] - toggle fullscreen mode
[ScrollLock] - quick switch control ports
[PageDown] - make a screenshot (320x200)