AUTOMANIA (MANIC MECHANIC)

Welcome to the world of Wally Week.

O.K. Wally try and get it right this time! All you have to do is get these car parts from the store, take them to the assambly area and put them together.

Simple, INNIT? If you bought decent shelving units things wouldn't keep falling off would they Wally, and if the gangplanks seem to have a mind of their own happen it's because you're a Wally, Wally. If you put things back in their right places you wouldn't have to jump over them to get what you want. With your fiat hat, beer belly and oversize boots you really are a Wally, Wally.

You as Wally Week have ten cars to build, each consisting of 6 parts. You will begin in the store area with tyres bouncing around to hit you. You must go to the stock room, identify the parts required, and go up the ladders to each level to collect them (moving over the part will collect it). The gangplanks are none too safe and you must jump the gaps to reach the relevant parts. There are various items strewn on the floors. These appear in different places on each screen, so the game is a constant challenge.

You will then return to the assembly area to place the parts in their correct position on the car, but to deposit the upper parts of the car (e.g. windscreen, roof, etc.) you will have to jump when in the correct position.

On menu screen you will see:

• Key 1 ­ Music On
• Key 2 ­ Music Off
• Key 3 ­ Joystick (to play for)
• Key 4 ­ Cursors (to play for)
• Key 5 ­ Credits (to show this crazy crew)

You will start with 3 lives and gain an extra live for each car you complete. However, you also have time limit on each car part and will lose a life if you exceed this limit.

Right Wally, away you go!!

Watch out for Wally Weeks other wacky adventures.

Hardware requirements:

an MSX­1 with 64 kB of RAM memory.

Notes:

This game is the MSX conversion/remake of Mikro­Gen's game "Automania", released in 1984 for ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 machines.

In­game music only available for MSX2 or higher in this version.

Credits:

• Code: fregarni
• Graphics: fregarni
• Music/FX: fregarni

Package

AUTOM.zip

Individual files

AUTOM.ROM

AUTOM.BAT

Default install directory

A:\AUTOM