Food Fight: Instruction Manual

Once there was a fellow named Charley Chuck. More than anything, Charley loved to eat. So when he went to the carnival one hot summer day, he headed straight for the Food Fight contest.

1. Insert the Food Fight™ cartridge into your ATARI® 7800™ ProSystem as explained in your Owner's Manual, and turn on your console.
2. Plug a controller into the left controller jack for one player, and another into the right controller jack for two players.
3. Move the controller handle forward or backward, or press [Select] to choose a one- or two-player game. Move the controller handle to the left or right to choose a difficulty level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, or Expert.
4. Press [Reset] or either button on the controller to show the Game Level Options screen.
   
   Using the left controller, Player 1 chooses Game Level 1 through 16 by moving the controller handle to the left (for lower levels) or to the right (for higher levels). Player 1 presses either controller button or [Reset] to begin the game. Player 2 chooses a game level after Charley loses his first life. Once you've played, you can start at the highest game level you've reached.
5. Press either controller button to make Charley throw food at the chefs. Charley throws in the direction the controller is pointing. Watch his eyes and arms for an accurate reading.
6. Press [Pause] to pause the game; press it again to resume play.

Depending on the game level, Charley has three to eight lives and battles two to four chefs: Angelo, Zorba, Oscar, and Jacques. If Charley uses up his last life, he's cooked for good, buried under an avalanche of food. Each ice cream cone takes 32 seconds to melt. At the beginning of Level 1, Charley is poised at the right side of the screen. A vanilla ice cream cone beckons him from the opposite side. In between are stacks of food and three manholes. To win, Charley must race to the ice cream cone before it melts -- without falling into a manhole, touching his opponents, or being walloped by flying food, compliments of the chefs. The game begins. Suddenly, Angelo and Zorba pop out of holes and take off after Charley. Lickety-split, Charley runs toward the cone with the chefs at his heels. He can thwart them by hitting them with food or forcing them into manholes. The chefs can put an end to Charley, but he can stop them only temporarily. Within seconds, they reapper out of the manholes. When Charley reaches the cone, the chefs retreat until the next round, and he swallows the cone in one quick gulp. In Level 2, Oscar joins his chef buddies, and the battle continues. This time Charley races toward a chocolate cone. By the time Charley reaches Level 3, he also faces Jacques. Through round after round, Charley holds off all four chefs and the pace picks up. He must dodge as many as ten manholes and fight for up to eight piles of food. To complicate matters, the chefs and the manholes aren't always in the same positions. And after Level 6, neither is the cone. Watch out for open manholes or Charley will fall in and lose a life! Keep an eye on the colors of the chefs. When the chefs are blue or yellow, they can't hurt Charley. In the higher levels, have Charley race to the cone immediately for the high cone points. You win an extra 500 points each time Charley scrambles to a higher level. Use leftovers as ammunition whenever possible. Remember: if Charley's carrying food when he reaches the cone, he takes it with him to the next level.
If he plays like a champ, Charley sees an instant replay of his last round. In Levels 1 through 4, Charley and the chefs do battle with a random assortment of food. In Levels 5 and above, one type of food may dominate the match. You earn 100 points for the first chef, 200 points for the second chef, and so on, increasing 100 points per chef up to 1000 points for the tenth chef and above. You earn 200 points per chef. You earn 500 points for the first cone, 1000 points for the second cone, and so on, increasing 500 points per cone up to a maximum of 25,000 points at level 50. You earn 100 bonus points per leftover. Charley earns an extra life at 25,000 points and every 100,000 points thereafter, and at every tenth game level if he begins the game at level 10 or above.

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CO24857-04 Rev. B B.T.5.1988