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At the dawn of time the 8 Gods of Zzarn ruled the universe... You are trapped in a comet's time vortex and only the Gods can return you to the future, if you deliver to them the buried Crystals of Zzarn-- this is your task; your future is in your own hands. The Crystals of Zzarn are buried in 16 vast chambers, each of which contains 3 effigies. Three of the effigies must be delivered to the Gods Receptor Pods who will then grant special tools and abilities to reach the crystals. - but beware - the devil incarnations constantly sapping your energy levels and will steal an effigy from you after touching you three times. You dare not risk the God's displeasure by sacrilegiously losing an effigy - if you do lose three effigies within a life so they will remove one of your powers.
HINTS Pressing fire whilst playing gives menu options. Look at the menu options after you have collected 3 effigies to see what extra powers you have been given. These are necessary to collect the crystals and the screen direction arrows turn white - assistance from the Gods to find the buried crystals. For example you will need Yellow Slab Acid to eat through the floor to get to the crystal in the first chamber. Teleport routes show the name of the chamber that a particular effigy will take you to, also shown is a crystal if it hasn't already been collected The only way to drop an effigy is to either teleport, deposit it in the tiled Gods Receptor Pod or get hit three times and have it stolen from you. The Gods do not make your life an easy one. They do not allow entry to their Receptor Pods unless you are holding an effigy - once deposited, it's strictly one way traffic.
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By default, Lap of the Gods tests to see if a Kempston joystick is attached. If it is then whatever keys your emulator uses for a Kempston joystick are the ones to use. For example, within the Emulator ZX32, the PC INSERT key represents fire, with the cursor arrows for movement. JX-Speccy, the on-line Java emulator is similar, though uses the Tab key to represent fire. However, if the emulator does not recognise a Kempston joystick, then both of the two following strategies are adopted. Sinclair joystick emulation:- using the keys 6 - 0
Important Note. If your emulator recognises a Kempston joystick, both the Sinclair option and the standard keyboard controls are disabled. Using these programming strategies avoided the need to offer a choice of control method.
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Lap of the Gods features an in built cheat mode that turns on all the special powers. Start playing a game, insert just one effigy, then choose quit game. For your high score name reply with CHEAT which enables one further game menu item. CHEAT MODE! The CHEAT MODE menu item acts as a toggle to turn everything on then everything off ad infinitum.
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