Pete the Plastered Postman & Asteroid Lander

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PETE THE PLASTERED POSTMAN

Pete the postman has been driven to drink by canine harassment. Now he is incapacitated. Playing the part of Pete's brain, can you help him avoid the cur and deliver his parcels? At the beginning of the game, Pete starts near the pillar box in the bottom left hand corner of the screen and must take parcels one at a time to the rectangle in the top right corner. Every time you help Pete to deliver a parcel you will receive 100 points. Pete can be made to move any of the seven directions with the left and right arrow keys. The right arrow key will move Pete clockwise and the left arrow anticlockwise. At first you will probably find that controlling Pete is almost impossible, but you should soon get the hang of his drunken meanderings. Be careful not to tread on the grass as this will send Pete staggering off in another direction...

ASTEROID LANDER

Double danger and difficult confront you in Asteroid Lander as your ship hurtles through the darkest depths of space. Your mission is to safely reach a scientific outpost located on a large asteroid. The scientists at the station have set up an invisible force-shield to protect their base from space bandits. The sky is cluttered with small asteroids and it is on one of these that the interplanetary terrorist is based. Can you get the ship, with little fuel left, beneath the scientist's shield before the plasma cannon's lethal laser beam blasts you and your craft to smithereens? It's a difficult game to play and one requiring quick finger movement. Level One is hard to handle until you have mastered the controls. Level Three is the most taxing and provides you with maximum frustration. A word of advice - try to keep the lander upright as much as possible to counter gravity pulls. The best strategy is to find a path as far as possible from the gunman and then hedge to hop to gravity pulls. The best strategy is to find a path as far as possible from the gunman and then hedge hop to the pad beneath the force field. If you're feeling adventurous, manoeuvre so that the gunman blasts a path through the asteroids for you. It is not advisable at Level One and can be dangerous on other levels. To control the lander, use key 8 to rotate clockwise and the 0 key to rotate anticlockwise. The 9 key will give you thrust.





Platform : BBC Micro
Format : Cassette
Publisher : ASP Software
Authors :
Date : 1982
Product Code :

Other Software by ASP Software:

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Spectrum Computing Issue No. 3 Asp Software ZX Spectrum Cassette Unknown
Pete the Plastered Postman & Asteroid Lander ASP Software BBC Micro Cassette 1982
Cells & Serpents ASP Software Commodore 64 Cassette 1982
Demon Knight ASP Software Dragon 32 Cassette 1983
Stockmarket ASP Software BBC Micro Cassette 1983
Planetfall ASP Software BBC Micro Cassette 1983
Detective ASP Software Dragon 32 Cassette 1983
Conquering Everest Asp Software BBC Micro Cassette 1983
Froglet ASP Software BBC Micro Cassette 1983
Detective ASP Software BBC Micro Cassette 1983
The Valley ASP Software BBC Micro Cassette 1983
Stockmarket ASP Software Oric Cassette 1983
The Fall Of Rome Asp Software BBC Micro Cassette 1984
The Fall of Rome ASP Software Atari 8 Bit Cassette 1984
The Fall of Rome ASP Software Ltd ZX Spectrum Cassette 1986

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This exhibit has a reference ID of CH20838. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.
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