Introduction to Spy Hunter
Description of Spy Hunter the Video Game
The player is a secret agent driving a car or a boat, rigged with
all sorts of weapons, who fights other bad guys in various vehicles.
The player drives on a vertically scrolling road on both dry pavement
and snow. The theme music is Peter Gunn.
Spy hunter can be played on both the upright and sitdown models.
Cheats, Tricks and Bugs
If the road is drawn to the extreme right side of the screen when the
car is dropped off by the weapons van, one can drive across the grass
and Water to pass any difficult areas that might be ahead.
The Accelerator can be dislodged to increase the default speed.
See [Questions/Answers] for more tricks enabling you to get a high score.
After being let out of the semi, due to crash or weapons upgrade, one
can use the truck itself as a buffer to smash other cars off the road!
Game Introduction
Basically an all-around great game with superior play, music, and sounds.
A unique driving game that was one of the first to combine driving and
shooting at the same time during play. There are a variety of weapons
that become available during gameplay -- 4 in all: Machine-Guns, Oil Slick,
Smoke Screen, and Missiles.
The game also features the ability to take a side road during game play
and turn the car into a boat, taking the battle onto the water.
There are five different enemies in the road sequence: tire slashers called
"Switchblade" or "Never To Be Trusted"; armored cars called "The Road Lord"
or "Bulletproof Bully"; limousines called "The Enforcer" or "Double Barrel
Action"; and helicopters called "The Mad Bomber" or "Master Of The Sky".
Game Play
This driving game has a gas pedal, steering wheel, gear shifter, and four
buttons on the wheel. The driver is a secret agent driving along a
vertically scrolling highway to the tune of Peter Gunn.
The bad spies drive blue cars that resemble '57 Chevies. They can disable
the player with wheel-mounted spikes. These make the player spin out and
explode. The player can shoot these enemies from behind with grill-mounted
machine guns or ram them off the road (assuming their spikes are not
deployed).
Other enemies, called 'Bullies', drive armored cars that try to
ram you off the road. The machine guns are ineffective, but they can be
rammed. The boss bad guy drives a limo and attempts to pull up beside you
and shoot you with a shotgun. This limo can be gunned down or rammed.
Periodically, you pass an ally, the weapons van. The van will catch up to
you and extend ramps. You can drive into the van and obtain special weapons:
oil slick, smoke screen, or missiles. The oil slick and smoke screen can
be used to wreck or slow down all three of the ground-based enemies.
Occasionally, a chopper flies overhead and tries to kill you with bombs.
These bombs do not have to hit you to kill you. If you drive through the
pothole that they leave, you are just as dead. They also kill the bad guys.
You can use the missiles to blow the chopper away.
As you progress, you can voluntarily swerve into the boat house and
proceed on water. Your boat also has machine guns and the special weapons.
Enemy boats try to kill you by throwing floating charges in your path.
The big boat fires torpedoes at you from behind or in front. The chopper
also harasses you in the water. You can be forced into the water when a
bridge is out.
Sometimes you must also drive on snow. This makes it very tricky to swerve
enemies that you have just shot.
The whole time, civilian traffic is on the road. If you shoot or ram them,
you lose points.
Miscellaneous
Play the game on-line (requires Shockwave) at
http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/spyhunter
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