NEW YORK WARRIORS ================= The Year 2014 - New York is lost to organised crime. Only a valiant few remain loyal to law and order - They are THE WARRIORS. You, as 'THE WARRIOR' have to fight your way through the streets to save New York using an awesome array of devastating weapons. If you fail, New York will be destroyed by a nuclear device planted in the World Trade Centre. You cannot, you must not, fail! In the mid 1980s organised crime in America started to get REALLY organised. Law enforcement agencies, and indeed the American Government itself, continually lost ground in the battle to restore order. A crank religious organisation run by a shady character from the Bronx organised the spread of crime. Vast profits from drug-running operations were invested in the Wall Street money markets by the Church of The Third Coming, of C3C as it became known. POST DETOX STATEMENT For Immediate Issue to all new Warrior recruits upon regaining consciousness The vision of novelist George Orwell was misplaced — in 1984 the world had been a relatively civilised place. But by 2014, Big Brother was alive, well, and operating under the guise of C3C. For years both your perception of reality and your moral judgement has been radically altered by mind-bending chemicals. Fortunately for the chances of humanity, the criminals are unable to subdue everyone with their mega-addictive designer drugs. By a genetic fluke, some people are largely immune to the effects of the narcotics introduced by C3C into basic foodstuffs. Gradually, a resistance movement has evolved and leading scientists, technicians, strategists and weapons experts are recruited by this resistance organisation. We call ourselves The Warriors, and we have just put you through a detoxification process. MISSION BRIEFING Issued by Warrior Command 21/12/2047 BETA 3 SECURITY CLEARANCE ONLY As you will have learnt from recent Global Telecasts, C3C's Inner Cabinet has unveiled a cynical plan they believe will force every Warrior in the world to surrender. By quadrupling the narcotic content of New York's water supply, C3C has effectively put the city to sleep — only Warriors and C3C personnel are awake. C3C has planted a nuclear warhead in the World Trade Centre and has just announced that the bomb will be detonated if every Warrior in the world does not surrender. As you read this, less than thirty hours remain till the expiry of the C3C deadline. You are about to mount one last ditch Warrior Mission — to disarm the nuclear warhead. A short briefing follows. Warrior Command wishes you luck in your endeavours. OPERATIONAL BRIEFING Mission: Mercy Dash Warrior Infiltration Agents have discovered the security system for the World Trade Centre is powered by two generators. One generator is located in the subways just south of the building, the other reached from a back alley in Chinatown. The only way to gain access to the World Trade Centre is via the roof, and unless the security system is disabled this will be impossible. C3C's operatives in the World Trade Centre will detonate the bomb if an attempt is made to penetrate the building. The detonation device is a crude timer — finding the bomb and blowing up the the controller will prevent an explosion, providing the timer hasn't counted down to zero... C3C's operatives in New York are roaming the streets in a frenzy of drug induced destruction. Virtually every human being still walking the streets is predatory, no matter how innocent they may appear to be. A loose chain of command on the streets can call up reinforcements if you remain in one location for too long — a squad of operatives flying jetpacks will appear, and your weapons will prove useless against them. If the aerial squad arrives they will fly past and then return, dropping cluster bombs — the only defence is to take refuge to the far left or right of the current location. The mission begins in Walt Whitman Park. Advance over Brooklyn Bridge onto Manhattan Island. Chinatown, where the first generator is located, is just west of the end of the bridge. Cut through City Hall Park and find the subway entrance to Broadway. At the end of the subway, take out the generator. Follow West Broadway or Church Street to the park in front of the World Trade Centre. From there, you will be choppered onto the roof of the World Trade Centre for final confrontation. Weapons that are found on the streets include: Fan-fire submachine gun Missile launcher Heat-seeking missile launcher Cluster grenade launcher Flame thrower Explore the terrain and look for them in out-of-the-way alleys as well as in the mainthroughfares. GOOD LUCK CONTROLS AMIGA Start FIRE, Restart — R, Pause — ESC, Music On/Off — M. After you click the fire button to start the game, a screen will appear asking you to choose the difficulty level of the game. Use the Joystick to select type of game: EASY Easiest difficulty level. You may only continue game once after you have used up you original five lives. NORMAL Moderately difficult. You may continue game twice after you have used up your original five lives. HARD Very difficult. You may continue game three times after you have used up your original five lives. FLAME Maximum difficulty. You may continue game twice after you have used up your original five lives. The only weapon you may utilize at this level is a flame thrower. But, don't worry — this particular flame thrower has unlimited fire power. TO RECHARGE FLAME THROWER — click fire button repeatedly. SELECT ONE PLAYER GAME DURING DEMO MODE BY PRESSING FIRE BUTTON OF JOYSTICK IN PORT1 or 2. SELECT TWO PLAYER GAME AND START SIMULTANEOUS PLAY AT ANY POINT IN THE GAME BY PRESSING FIRE BUTTON OF OTHER JOYSTICK. If you add a second player, you will lose one continue play option. SPECTRUM Once the game has loaded use the Cursor keys to select desired option and press ENTER to toggle/select option. The program supports joystick or keyboard. A re-define keyboard option allows you to select your own controls. AMSTRAD Once the game has loaded use the Cursor Keys to select desired option and press ENTER to toggle/select option. The program supports joystick or keyboard. In two player mode player two must use the keyboard. Keyboard controls for player 1: Z,X,F,C and G to fire, Keyboard controls for player 2: <,>,+,? and ] to fire. © 1990 ARCADIA SYSTEMS INC. VIRGIN MASTERTRONIC LIMITED 16 PORTLAND ROAD, LONDON, W11 4LA