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This document Copyright 2006 Daniel Engel
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Tape Worm FAQ [2600]
February 02, 2006
Daniel (FecalLord) Engel
fecalord [AT] gmail [DOT] com
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(A) TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Table of Contents
(A) This Table of Contents
(B) Controls
(C) Enemies
(D) How To Play
(E) Stages
(F) Scoring
(G) Experimental
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(B) CONTROLS
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The controls for this game are as follows:
Up/Down/Left/Right - Move your tape worm.
Fire - Light up the dark stage.
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(C) ENEMIES
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There are two types of enemies in this game, and they are:
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Spiders
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Spiders move from the top of the screen to the bottom in a straight line.
Sometimes they move from side to side a little, but their path is straight for
the most part.
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Birds
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Birds move from the right side of the screen to the left side. While their
path is pretty straight, they will sometimes move up or down quite a bit to get
near you. Stay far away from birds when you see them and you should be
alright.
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(D) HOW TO PLAY
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Bricklayer J. Gastronomy
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Basics
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The basic idea in "Tape Worm" is to use your worm to pick up the food [dots],
without running into any walls, enemies, or your own body. For every dot that
you eat, your worm grows a little bit longer.
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Time
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Each stage has a crude time limit in the form of a spider walking towards some
fruit at the bottom of the screen. Every time the spider reaches the fruit on
the right, a pair of dots will get added to the stage for you to eat.
On the other hand, each dot that you eat forces the spider back to the far left
side, away from the fruit. So if you reach the dots quickly, you will do
better.
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Clearing Stages
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If all you do is eat the dots and avoid the enemies, then you will never clear
a stage. There is a number at the bottom of the screen, beside your lives.
This number tells you how many dots you need to eat in order to open the stage
exit. If the spider reaches the fruit and adds 2 more dots to the stage, then
those 2 dots also get added to this number.
Once you eat enough dots to bring the number down to zero, you will notice the
large fruit somewhere along either the top or bottom walls. At this point you
need to make a mad dash and HIT that fruit before the spider reaches its own
fruit at the bottom of the screen. If you can do this in time, then you move
on to the next stage.
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(E) STAGES
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Here I will provide the layouts of each of the 5 stages.
In the dark stage you can press "Fire" to light the stage for a moment, but
this also adds one more dot for you to get when used.
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Stage 01: Empty
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(F) SCORING
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There are only two ways that you can earn points in this game. By eating dots
and by clearing a stage.
In the first stage, dots are worth 5 points each, then they are worth 10 each
in the second stage and so on.
Clearing the first stage gets you 50 points, clearing the second gets you 100
points and it goes on like this.
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(G) EXPERIMENTAL
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