Pasta Blasta

shoot'em up game for Commodore 64, 1984

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Pasta Wars: Pasta Blasta is a single screen shooter where you are
Heinz 'Hurricane' Solo and must protect six ravioli tins from being taken off
screen by Pasta Pinchas, by shooting a limited amount of Pasta Powda in a
Sauce Squirter. You move around the screen by holding down forward while
being able to turn 360 degrees, and if you let go off forward then momentum
keeps you moving until you stop. The Pinchas appear of the edge of the screen
and move around towards a tin and when they stop above one then they start to
move towards the edge of the screen with the tin. As you blast, then your
Pasta Powda decreases shown by a gauge but catching a Pasta Powda Pill
increases it, but if you shoot the pill then the Pinchas get it. You are also
armed with three Pasta Pellet's which stops all Pinchas on the screen but you
are able to keep moving. If you touch a Pinchas or a tin then you lose one of
seven lives and you appear in the place of a tin. Two players can play with
each player taking it in turns to play when the other player loses a life and
there are 10 skill levels (0-9) to choose from at the start of the game.

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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)