![]() In almost every Period is a hidden room called the Room of Idols. ZED can walk across one square of water but will drown if he tries to walk over anything longer than that. The Life Saver item is needed so ZED can walk across areas filled with water. Candles and Lanterns are needed to see in dark levels and underground areas. Other items are necessary to complete the levels. The only way it can be replenished is by collecting a battery item or using an energy tank item in your inventory. Four batteries can be held at once, each ticking down with their own health bar. The bar is said to be his battery life for his body and drains with time. Not only does he take damage from projectiles or touching enemies, it also decreases with time. Enemies that are defeated almost always drop bombs making combat a necessity.Īnother limitation is ZED's health bar. The number of bombs the player can hold is limited to 99 and since they are continuously needed to move throughout the level, can make it very difficult. Items in this game are needed continuously but are often limited. There are several limitations that make the game more challenging. These rooms are useful because they contain a lot of items. The only way to exit the underground room is to find the stairway that leads back up. By using the Candle or Lantern item the player can light up the area to see where they are going. The only stipulation is that it is completely dark aside from the sprites of ZED and the enemies. The player can enter this room to find an area that if filled with items, enemies, and no soft blocks. This isn't explained in the game so it can lead to confusion for the player.Įither hidden beneath a soft block or out in the open will be a stairway that leads into the ground. Then the player must locate the key as normal to open the exit. To clear this type of level, the player must destroy the soft block that holds a Chalice item and it will prevent the screen from wrapping any further. The screen will continue to wrap itself around and around in some Periods. Hidden somewhere in the maze is a key that will make the exit appear in the top right corner at the very end of the stage. In each Period the player must navigate through a maze of soft blocks and destroy them with bombs. Pressing the A button fires regular shots and pressing the B button plants bombs which will made ZED take a step back to avoid the blast. The player is a cyborg with a machine gun and bombs. His name is ZED (Z-Type Defender of Earth) and he is sent to Altile to defeat Xur and rescue its people. They send a distress signal to Earth who hears it and in turn, revives one of the cyborg's from the past. The planet is forced into ruin and the people take refuge in the underground of Altile. However the evil Xantho empire, lead by the Emperor Xur, have taken over the planet and deactivated the weather control system. The people were forced to build anĪrtificial planet called Altile and move there to begin a new life. In the future, the planet Earth has become overpopulated and overpolluted. Find the hidden chalice and be saved from eternal doom. Find the keys, or you're blocked in a battle zone forever. They're mean, they're ugly, and they're after you. Wisps, Wanes, Tracers, Strinkers, Skraugs, the Globula, Gholem, Viripides. Master each to save yourself from a continuing barrage of 20 deadly enemies. Megaton bombs, life vests, hyper missiles, super boots, cross-fires, super bombs, energy capsules, life pods, power balls. You must recover an arsenal of 12 different weapons and 6 powers hidden on Altile. Can you blast your way alone through 27 battle zones to liberate the desperate people of the planet Altile from the evil invader Xur? Xur has seized the weather control station it's bitter cold, and the people have fled underground. The one-man battalion with a human heart and a computer's brain. As taken from the text on the back of the US box: ![]()
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