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Conference rusure::nintendo

Title:	Nintendo Game Systems
Notice:	Please enter Super NES notes in Yuppy::Super_NES.
Moderator:	RUSURE::EDP

Created:	Tue Oct 20 1987
Last Modified:	Mon Feb 03 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	847
Total number of notes:	11602

397.0. "CYBERNOID" by AUSTIN::MACNEAL (Big Mac) Wed Jan 10 1990 11:35

    Is anyone playing Cybernoid?  I received it as a Christmas gift and
    have found it to be very difficult.  
    
    The game is basically a space-type shoot'em-up game.  You pilot an
    advanced spacecraft through the interiors of asteroids in order to
    eliminate the space pirates who have invaded the system and are
    stealing Earth's supplies.  Along the way you blast various types of
    space pirates with your laser cannons.  You can pick up any cargo they
    drop for extra points.  There are also extra weapons planted among the
    asteroids which can be clipped onto your ship.  These are a laser for
    the rear of your craft and a "space mace" which circles your ship and
    destroys anything which it comes into contact with.  You also have a
    variety of secondary weapons to choose from including a shield, a
    genocide ray (destroys everything on the screen), bombs, bouncers (they
    bounce around the screen for a time and destroy enemies in their path),
    missles, etc.  You have a finite number of these weapons, but extras
    can be picked up along the way by destroying the enemy.  
    
    In order to go through the asteroids you also have to negotiate moving
    elevator type things.  This is where I'm having the greatest
    difficulty.  It takes precise timing to get through these things.  So
    far I've only gotten through about a half dozen screens in the first
    asteroid.  I can't get by one particular screen because of these
    "elevators".
    
    There is no password or save feature.  You start off with 9 ships and
    the game ends when all of your ships have been destroyed.  You can earn
    extra ships at specified point totals.  Once a ship has been destroyed
    you lose any weapons you may have picked up, but you resume play where
    you left off.  When all nine ships are gone, you start at the very
    beginning.
    
    There are three choices of game play:  Easy, Hard and Lethal (I'm still
    on Easy).  They look to be the same basic game except things move
    faster in the Hard and Lethal versions.  There is also a choice of
    sound effects.  You can choose between "authentic" (high tech sounding
    weapon sounds and explosions) and one with a musical soundtrack.
    
    The graphics and sound are quite good.  It does look like it could get
    repetitive after awhile, though.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
397.1	Don't have it, but sounds familiar.	TLE::FUELLEMANN	Software engineers put the 'soft' in software.	`Wed Jan 10 1990 11:48`	7
	Sounds somewhat like Guardian Legend. . . . How does this game handle ~20 objects on the sceen? -Andy
397.2		AUSTIN::MACNEAL	Big Mac	`Thu Jan 11 1990 16:13`	4
	� How does this game handle ~20 objects on the sceen? Alot better than I expected. There can be alot of action occuring in some of the tunnels and I haven't seen any screen flicker.
397.3	Cybernoid Tip and some Glitches	BRAT::SMITH	Never say never, I always say.	`Mon Apr 30 1990 10:30`	37
	I was put on Acclaim's Mailing List (not by request, but because I ordered a replacement Instruction Booklet, I guess) and recently received Volume 1 - No. 1 of their Magazine/Advertisement (only 8 pages). There was a little blurb on Cybernoid with a couple of game-play tips. I rented the game and tried them. The major one was to blast the hell out of the left side of one of those "lifts" (a platform elevator) with you regular laser weapon after using all your Bouncers. After you do this, a ball with the letter "T" floats into the room. If you intercept this ball, you become the Cybernoid Pilot out of the ship with a full compliment of weapons, to include 5 shields and 2 Cyber-Maces circling around you. If you don't get rid of most or all of your Bouncers just before you enter that room, you won't have enough time to blast the lift (after you get rid of your Bouncers) before the "time bomb" goes off. The pilot seems to be invulnerable for awhile. I can take hits without turning a shield on, even go through those elevator things (where I normally use a shield; at least on the double ones) without dying. The blue mushroom-shaped things seem to be lethal, though. Other times he doesn't seem to be invulnerable. I can't figure out the pattern. I was in one room where I blew- up a missle silo with a Seeker, but then when I flew over where the missle silo had been, a missle flew up from the vacant base! It seemed like a glitch in the program to me. Another glitch I almost always get, although it doesn't affect game play, is after I die and it says "Game Over", one of the rooms will briefly flash on the screen before that big face appears to tell me I've failed. Also, I will often lose my Cyber-Mace just by going from one room to the next. It might last a few rooms, but then - poof!, it's gone for no apparent reason. I haven't de- tected a pattern yet, although I am a bit slow at detecting them, so I'm wondering if it's a bug. Has anyone else experienced any- thing unusual with this game? I might call Acclaim's Hot Line to find out if any of these things are known problems. Mike
397.4	Next game please	NUTMEG::KNIGHT		`Tue May 08 1990 00:10`	11
	.0 seems to exactly sum up my feelings to this game. The elevators really frustrate the heck out of me and I loose patience. After 20X trying to go by 10 screens - I give up. P.S. I bought the game for $20 at Kay B Toys and they have a full refund policy that I'll take advantage of for this one unless someone would like mine for $20.
397.5	Use your Shields if you need to...	BRAT::SMITH	Never say never, I always say.	`Tue May 08 1990 08:58`	10
	re: -.1 I just turn my Shield on to go through the double elevators. It works fine. If you don't have a shield to use, try anyway, because if you get killed, your new ship (if you have any left) will have the full compliment of original weapons (5 Bouncers, 20 Bombs, 1 Shield, etc.). Mike
397.6		AUSTIN::MACNEAL	Bo don't know rugby!	`Thu Aug 09 1990 13:24`	7
	The invulnerability of the "Pilot" does wear off after awhile. I believe there is a color change which accompanies it, just like when the shield goes out. I haven't noticed that I've lost a cybermace just by going between screens. I think what may be happening is that you get destroyed by an incoming enemy just as you are exiting the current screen.