chase Command chase
Highly amusing video game
/usr/games/chase [ -c ] [ speed ]
chase is a COHERENT version of a popular video game. It runs on
the console of an IBM AT COHERENT system with input from the
console keyboard. chase assumes that the system console is a
monochrome display adapter unless you select the -c color-display
option.
To accomodate different computer system speeds and different
levels of skill, chase prompts the user to type a speed when the
game begins. Press <return> to try out the game with the default
speed of ten; typing a higher number makes the game slower, a
lower number makes it faster. If you can play at speed zero on a
fast computer system, you play too many video games. If you know
the speed you want, you can enter it as a command-line argument.
If you see the boss coming, you can quit by pressing <ctrl-C>.
***** The Rules *****
The player (represented by a blinking shaded rectangle) attempts
to evade four ``ghosts'' (represented by shaded rectangles with
arrows) while erasing dots from the playing-board maze.
At the beginning of a game, the four ghosts are in the ghost box
above the center of the maze and the player is below it. The
maze is filled with dots, including four blinking diamonds called
power pellets. The ghosts emerge from the ghost box and chase
the player. The console arrow keys move the player left, right,
up, or down through the maze. Typing `0' stops the player. The
player continues to move in the same direction until a wall of
the maze stops him, you type a `0', or you type another arrow
key.
When the player eats a power pellet, he acquires super power and
can chase the ghosts briefly; the ghosts change color while the
player has super power. If the player catches a ghost, he scores
a bonus and the ghost returns to the ghost box temporarily. Once
a player eats all the dots on the board, the game continues at
the next level.
The upper left corner of the screen displays a score and the cur-
rent board level. Each dot the player eats scores ten points.
The first ghost a player eats while he has super power scores 200
points, the second 400, the third 800, and the fourth 1,600. At
certain times during the game, a bonus letter appears below the
ghost box; the player scores 100 points for eating the bonus let-
ter on level `A', 300 on level `B', 500 on level `C', and so on.
The lower left corner of the screen displays the number of extra
players remaining in the current game (initally two). Another
bonus player appears every 10,000 points, to a maximum of three
extra players. The game ends when the ghosts eat the last
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chase Command chase
player.
***** See Also *****
commands
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