Droid Special Edition (Atari STE)

Introduction

Droid is a platform/shooter game created in 1991 by Miles Lord and originally released on ST Format's Issue 37 (August 1992) coverdisk.  Droid Special Edition is a remake of the game which takes advantage of all of the extra hardware features of the Atari STE - blitter, hardware scrolling, DMA sound, enhanced palette and enhanced joystick port.  

Instructions

You (yes, you - ask your mum) are a droid, and in this game you MUST destroy enemies and collect powerups to blow "up" sort of barriers at the end bit or whatever, to reveal an exit so that you can go to there.

Items

E - increase energy

A - increase ammo

Keycards - use to remove gold/blue/grey barriers

Grenades - use to destroy barriers at the end of the game

Double arrow - refill energy and ammo

Weapons

Single shot - standard weapon

Double shot - twice as powerful as standard weapon

Triple shot - 3-barrel version of standard weapon

Rocket - vertical shot

Bomb - bouncing bomb

Hints

There are areas that are blocked off unless a certain number of items are collected or a certain number of enemies are destroyed.  Look out for messages in the status panel that suggest which parts have been unlocked and use the map to find them.

Energy and ammo items don't necessarily have to be picked up immediately upon sight, return to collect them when they're really needed.

An extra life is awarded every 20,000 points.

Controls

On the title screen, press the Fire button on a joystick plugged into port 1 or the B button on an Atari PowerPad plugged into enhanced controller port A to set the input.

Command	Joystick	PowerPad
Jump	Up	C
Crouch (crouch before jumping for power jump)	Down	Down
Move left	Left	Left
Move right	Right	Right
Shoot weapon	Fire	B
Cycle collected weapons	Alternate	A
Enter doorway	Space	Option
Pause / Display map	P	Pause