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ZZOOM

PUBLISHER
Imagine

AUTHOR
John Gibson

YEAR
1983.

DESCRIPTION
An Operation Wolf style shoot-em-up. 

CONTROLS:
Keyboard:
Left,Right         - Alternating keys on CAPS to SPACE row
Up,Fire            - Alternating keys on Q to P row
Down,Fire Missiles - Alternating keys on A to ENTER row
Pause              - Top row (1 to 0)

Fuller, Kempston, Protek, AGF, I2L Joysticks

INSTRUCTIONS
The idea of each level is to protect refugees, from attack by
aircraft, tanks or submarines.  You must do this by moving the
cross hairs around the screen and shooting all the enemies.  You
can only use the missiles in the tank and sub attack waves.  

URL
ftp://ftp.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/z/zzoom.zip

CHEAT
POKE 24743,0 - This gives you unlimited lives.


GENERAL FACTS
Some of the enemies (the aircraft) in this game are called Nomen
Ludi in the inlay card text, which is latin for "The Name of the
Game", which was Imagine's slogan at the time.  Matthew Smith
picked up on this, and named one of his rooms in Jet-Set Willy
"Nomen Luni", the joke being that one of the planes from Zzoom
had crashed into Willy's mansion.  You can actually make out the
plane, spread across this room and the one below it.


NOTES
Good (for the Speccy) tunes. Dambuster theme when first loaded,
and an excerpt from Queens "Another one bites the dust" on game
over.  Although very colourful, doesn't suffer too badly from
attribute clash.