JAMES BOND
(c)1984 Parker Brothers
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STARTING THE GAME
Keys F3 and F5 as indicated allow to select the number of players
and the difficulty level. Then press F1 to start the game.

Pause Key: F7 (This is a critical key as the game is VERY long!)

GAME PLAY
The screen then tells you 

                 "Good Luck, Mr Bond" 

and up you go on your first mission, "Diamonds are Forever." 
This mission, as all the 4 missions of the game, is divided in 
several phases that are for you to find out... You need to 
familiarize yourself with the landscape and the use of your 
vehicle with its weapons. The landscape changes somewhat in each 
game, so beware!

When you reach a new phase, if you die there you continue your 
next life at the start of that new phase (you have 5 lives to 
start with). 

If you lose all your lives, you are told

                  "Good Bye, Mr Bond"

and you have to press F1 to restart. (You can use F3 and F5 at 
any time in the game to restart from the beginning - you may 
want to do that if you have lost too many lives already.)

If you succeed to reach the end of the mission you are then told

                  "Good Show, Mr Bond"

and on you go to the next mission, which can be either

--- For Your Eyes Only,
--- Moonracker, or
--- The Spy who Loved Me.


CONTROLS

Joystick in port 1 (one player or two players alternating).
In the first mission using your joystick your vehicle can 
      jump (pull) or dive (push), 
      advance (right) or lag (left) on the screen, with
      Fire Button shooting missiles both up and down.

You can also use the keyboard. In the first mission:

key            Action
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M              Shoot missiles at the diamonds and scuba-divers

Top row        Jump, dive and advance on screen - Choose the 
(1 through -)  keys most convenient - they alternate in their 
               function (find out!)
          
2nd row        Drag back toward left of scrolling screen
(A through L) 


HISTORICAL NOTES
This game was cracked by ANTIRAM in 1984 (in the US). ANTIRAM 
(an early cracker) removed the copyright notice as it was
customary at the time. Since then many people, especially in
Europe, had no idea who originated the game (it seems not to have 
been published in Europe). Much later GCS (the "German Cracking 
Service") literally stole the crack (they did not exist in 1984!)
and put their advertizing screen (with its big flag) in front... 
to the point that ARNOLD now identifies GCS as the cracker! 
I could not find a copy of the game on the Web without the GCS 
flag screen! I had to do something about it. I found recently 
(May 2000) at the LEMON site that the originator of the game was 
at last identified on the list of games (yet with a GCS copy to 
download!).

Separately, this game is identified as "James Bond: Diamonds are
Forever" in many places on the Web. Sorry, there were 4 parts to 
the game, 4 different movie title references as listed above, at 
least in the original cartridge! Diamonds are Forever is only the 
first part! If the crack is incomplete then it must be because
ANTIRAM originally was unable to take all the parts from a 
complex banked 32K cartridge... (like Simon's Basic cartridge).
I have not gone through the entire game, but I can tell that 
there were various missions in the original by examining the 
program. 

Without a full test I cannot tell whether the game file available
on the Web is complete. (Most likely it isn't as the file is only 
14K, so... for you to find out - or maybe someone has the 
original cartridge and can inform us!).

FINAL NOTE
It is a difficult game which makes you sweat a lot if you want to 
go far, even at the novice level. The discovery part in this game 
(including the controls!) is most important. It had a coin-op 
version back in the early 1980s. (Like Gyrus which dates from the 
same year, but the Bond game is far more original.)


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