SKULL & CROSSBONES
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A vast there ye lily-livered swabs! It's time to prove your manhood in a bloodthirsty 
battle to the death with the Evil Sorcerer and his henchmen.

Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail through strange and exotic lands with your old 
shipmates Red Dog and One Eye. Shipmates they may be, but trust them not... tempers 
soon flare in head to head clashes over the spoils of your piracy.

Skull & Crossbones is the most blood curdling arcade game on the market - not for 
the faint-hearted! Blood flows, razor-sharp cutlasses hack through the flesh of 
hideous opponents, arms and legs are ...

AAARGH... it's just disgusting! There's treasure, jewels, gold and lusty wenches to 
be captured and ghastly creatures to be stabbed. It's a rough and dirty job - and 
we all want to do it!


THE GAME

Join One Eye and Red Dog on a voyage of discovery through eight increasingly difficult 
levels in an attempt to retrieve your ill-gotten gains from the Evil Sorcerer.


GETTING STARTED

Playing either of the two pirates you must battle your way through the many weird and 
wonderful domains of the Evil Sorcerer including a castle, pirate ships, an enchanted 
cave and a mythical island. Eight levels of increasing difficulty, each packed with 
its own unique defences and dangerous obstacles.


YOUR TASK

Along the way you will find chests full of treasure, golden goblets, sacks of coins 
and other priceless items which will help you in your quest, and which you can collect 
by walking over them. You will also come across skulls and crossbones under which are 
hidden treasures. To dig these up, you will have to move onto them and press the fire 
button.

The more valuables you can collect, the stronger you will become and the more easily 
you will be able to vanquish your opponents. Should you fail to pick up the treasure, 
your power will soon diminish and your enemies will become harder and harder to defeat.

Recover buried treasure by digging up crossbones.
Defeat the Evil Sorcerer's henchmen.
Keep up your strength with plenty of food and drink.
Use the action points to perform special combat moves.


YOUR REWARD

As you progress through the game, you will discover bunches of grapes, bottles of rum 
and other goodies essential to your survival and health. You must keep up your energy 
to survive!

You will start the game with three credits - each time you die you will forfeit one.


WATCH YOUR BACK

At the end of each level, you must defeat one of the Evil Sorcerer's most faithful 
henchmen, who guards the prize treasure of that domain. But be careful! No sooner 
have you captured the treasure than your shipmate will turn on you and you must fight 
to the death to seize the spoils for yourself.

Don't forget to rescue the captive wenches from the hands of the Evil Sorcerer.


THE FINAL CONFLICT

If you are one of the few brave souls who can battle through to the final scene, 
you will at last come face to face with your arch enemy, the Evil Sorcerer himself. 
Defeat him in grisly head to head combat and his wealth and power will become yours.


TWO PLAYER MODE - Commodore 64, IBM PC, Spectrum & Amstrad: 
On the eight bit machines, once two player mode has been selected, Player One will 
proceed to play until Player One Completes the Level. After this, Player Two will 
start straight away and will keep playing until he completes the level or loses all 
of his lives.

TWO PLAYER MODE - Amiga, Atari ST:
A second player may be controlled using a joystick in Port 0 (The Mouse Port). 
Follow on-screen instructions on how to start a two player game.


CONTROLS

Without Fire Pressed:
Up		-	Move Up
Down		-	Move Down
Left		-	Move Left
Right		-	Move Right
Hold Fire	-	Turn Around

With Fire Pressed:

Up		-	Defend Upward
Down		-	Defend Downward
Left		-	Attack Left
Right		-	Defend
Up/Left		-	Attack Up

SPECIAL MOVES
Two Special Moves are also available by holding the direction then pressing fire. 
They are:

Left		- 	Lunge
Right		- 	Backslash

All controls are shown correctly for when your pirate is facing left. The left/right 
controls are reversed when facing right.


MACHINE SPECIFIC CONTROLS 

ATARI ST & AMIGA:
Player 1 - Joystick in Port 1
Player 2 - Joystick in Port 0 (mouse port)
Pause/Unpause - P
Quit - Escape
Start 1 Player/2 Player Game - Follow on-screen instructions.

COMMODORE 64:
Player 1 - Joystick in Port 2 (rear port) 
Player 2 - Joystick in Port 2
Start 1 Player/2 Player Qame - Follow on-screen instructions. 
Pause/Unpause - Run/Stop 
Quit - RESTORE

IBM PC, AMSTRAD & SPECTRUM
Player 1 - Joystick or Define Keys 
Player 2 - Joystick or Keys
Start 1 Player/2 Player Qame - Follow on-screen instructions. 
Pause/Unpause - Define In-Qame 
Quit - Define In-Qame


LOADING INSTRUCTIONS

DISK
Atari ST/Amiga:		Reset Machine and insert game disk.
Spectrum +3:		Place disk in drive and use "LOADER"
			option from startup menu.. 
Commodore 64/128:	Type LOAD"*",8,1
Amstrad:		Type RUN"DISC
IBM PC:			At A> prompt type "SKULL"

ATTENTION DISK USERS:
Due to the size of Skull and Crossbones a multi-load system has been incorporated to
load additional data at certain points in the game. Please ensure that the game disk 
is left in the drive at all times during play.

CASSETTE
Spectrum:		Type LOAD"" and press enter, then start tape.
Commodore 64/128:	Press Shift and the RUN/STOP key.
Amstrad:		Press CTRL and small ENTER key.
			If you have a disk drive attached, first type |TAPE. (| is 
			obtained by pressing the shift and @ keys simultaneously).

ATTENTION CASSETTE USERS:
Due to the size of Skull and Crossbones a multi-load system has been incorporated to 
load additional data at certain points in the game. Please leave the game tape in at 
all times. Start/stop the tape according to the on-screen instructions.


© 1991 TENGEN Inc. All rights reserved. Atari Games Corp. 
Artwork & Packaging © 1991 Domark Software Ltd. 
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