Nemesis was originally going to be in an Antic book that never materialized; so I included it on my compilation disk. It's a lot like the video game Scramble, and is the only action game I programmed that had the player shoot and kill (aliens... I think I should have made/called them robots, and not been so xenophobic). The sound pattern that plays at the end of the game was intended to sound like alien laughter. As with Risky Rescue, a machine code subroutine scanned the entire playfield map and moved any aliens it found.
In Play
For generations
your family has attempted in vain to penetrate and destroy the Nemesis
complex. Now the kindred duty has been
passed down to you from your forbearers. You must now commit yourself to the destruction of the Nemesis
Complex. This can be accomplished by navigating
your cruise ship (the Avigrator) through the Nemesis passageways to the core of
the complex where you must destroy the Nemesis Power Block.
THE AVIGRATOR
You control your ship, the Avigrator, with the joystick. Pushing the stick forward causes the ship to ascend. Pulling the stick back causes the ship to descend. Pulling the stick to the left causes the ship to stop. Pulling the stick to the right causes the ship to move at double speed. Diagonals will produce combinations of the two operations the stick is pulled between. A photon torpedo can be fired by pressing the trigger. The Avigrator can sustain only one photon torpedo in mid-air at a time. Each Avigrator starts with 500 units of fuel. Fifty units of fuel will be gained for each fuel tank destroyed. You start out with three Aviators. An Aviator is lost and the mission is restarted for any collision the ship sustains.
THE NEMESIS COMPLEX
The Avigrator is constantly sucked into the Nemesis complex as the screen is constantly scrolling over more than twelve screens of treachery. Five points will be scored for each girder section destroyed. Fifteen points will be awarded for each Nemesian Alien destroyed. Five hundred points will be scored for shooting the Nemesis Power Block, and thus destroying the Nemesis Complex. This is not called the Nemesis complex for nothing though, for once you have destroyed the complex, you restart the mission anew with Nemesian Aliens that move faster than previously.
