			VENTURE 2
                        (version Alpha 6c)
"In a Dungeon of Olde there are Treasures to Gain in Chambers midst Creatures of Doom.
Pass Quickly though Halls where Green Monsters do Reign; your arrows Pierce Only in rooms."

The evil wizard Exidy has captured Winky's true love Pinky.
Winky must travel through the nine worlds to Exidy's enchanted castle to save her!

Winky has climbed deep inside a dungeon laden with incredible treasures, but guarded by terrible monsters.  Equipped with only bow and arrows, he seeks the treasures as the monsters close in.
Guide him through the dungeon rooms... but don't stop to count your treasure until you're through!

After you've started your game, the treasure block screen appears.  Question marks in the screen
are replaced with treasures as you earn them.  Next, Winky appears in the first dungeon world.

While Winky is in the hallway, he appears as a small dot.  Beware of the treacherous Hall monsters that search for him.  Winky can't eliminate the Hall Monsters, so he must try to avoid them!  If you shoot at them, you'll only make them angry!

Move Winky into one of the dungeon rooms to capture the treasure within.  But each room is infested with monsters.  Fire arrows at them for points.  Just be careful - if Winky even touches a monster, living or dead, he will be elminated.

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED!  In some rooms, monsters or walls may appear or disappear at special times.  In other rooms, Winky will have special powers such as flight, jumping or swimming; use fire button 2 in these instances. Some rooms may require Winky to get more than one treasure.
In other rooms, the doors will not appear until Winky performs a certain task.

Try to capture the treasure and eliminate the monsters quickly.  If Winky stays in the room too
long, a Hall Monster appears and tracks him down.  If you can shoot the hall monster enough times, it can be destroyed, but beware of its friends!  After you seize the treasure, you can go to victory in another room!

Enter all the rooms on a world.  Once you have seized the treasures and left the room, you may
never return.  When you have captured all the treasures on a world, you'll be transported to the next world to even more dangerous adventures.

Scoring
LEVEL			MONSTERS		TREASURES
Earth World		100			 200
Fire World		200			 400
Water World		300			 600
Air World		400			 800
Desert World		500			1000
Ice World		600			1200
Enchanted World		700			1400
Arcade World		800			1600
Mystery World		900			1800

The Bonus Multiplier at the top of the screen starts out at a value of 9 and slowly decreases as
you play.  When you have completed a level, the points you have earned for that level (to a maximum of 5000 points) are multiplied by the Bonus Multiplier and added to your score.  The farther into the game you venture, the more points you gain for each treasure or monster.

Bonus Winkies are awarded to players at multiples of 20,000 points, with no more awarded after 200,000 points.  Each player receives four Winkies per game.

This is a One-Player game only.  The menu will show up to four players, but this is a limitation of Klik & Play!  If you select more than one player, the game may not function correctly.

Keyboard commands you should know about...
F1 - will bring up this instruction file
F2 - will begin a new game
F8 - will make the menu disappear, giving you a full screen. Press F8 again to get the menu back.
ALT + F4 will exit from the game in a hurry!
CTRL + M for the Music toggle
CTRL + S for the Sound Effect toggle
CTRL + P to pause the game while you're playing

Many of these options are also available on the top menu.

Control of Player 1 can be with the Keyboard, a Joystick or a Mouse (Joystick recommended.)
To adjust the controls, go to the Players Menu (CTRL + Y) and check off the appropriate box beside Player 1.  DO NOT SELECT MORE THAN ONE PLAYER!


Enjoy!

If you have any comments, questions, suggestions, or bug reports, send me e-mail:
ltravis@spots.ab.ca.


Credits:
Based on Exidy's 1981 arcade game "Venture".
Venture 2 programmed and designed by Lafe Travis
Playtested by Howard Uman. Thank you for all of your suggestions, Howie.
Other play testers are welcome. Send me e-mail and you can play test the later levels!
This game is not finished yet!
