----------------- PONG KOMBAT FAQ Version 2 20 April 1994 Kevin Gowen kgowen@emory.edu ----------------- Now, I don't expect to have to make too many versions of this here faq. This faq covers all moves, fatalities, secret characters, and dip settings for Pong Kombat 1.00. If you want to learn all this cool stuff on your own, hit `N' or whatever now! Now, the FAQ..... **********************************The Story********************************** Way way back in time, PONG was invented. And it was Good(tm). The only real player in the game, white paddle, enjoyed playing it, and played it well. Then, with the advent of color gaming systems, other paddles emerged. White, being the pompous holier-than-thou jerk he is, got all uptight about this and left. He joined the Pong Lao cult, a group of paddle warriors which held bi-annual tournaments and swap meets. He eventually toppled the Pong Lao leader, taking his throne (a mighty chair of porcelain). With the aid of his new friend, buddy, and bodyguard Monolith, he rules over this years' tournament with an iron... umm... well, paddles lack appendages, so just an iron. However, with new rainbow-colored paddles from all walks of life and a few old rivals seeking some revenge entering the tournament, he may have his hands full. Hopefully he can turn a few tricks and save his hide. Odds are certainly in his favor, but the forces of Good(tm) have you now. So don't screw up. *******************Fatalities, Spamalities, and Moves************************ PONG KOMBAT SEKRETS (Oooh, how scary.) STAGE FATALITIES On the Pit stage, hit DOWN-DOWN-DOWN-DOWN as your fatality to send the opponent flying. On the Toxic River stage, hit UP-UP-DOWN-DOWN as your fatality to dunk them in acid. SPAMALITIES Secret fatality move... BUTTON+BUTTON+BUTTON+UP. Turns your opponent into bratwurst. MUST have a flawless victory to execute. PADDLE ABILITIES Secret moves and fatalities for each paddle. RED PADDLE Paddle of shadows and eye-wrenching telportation tricks, Red Paddle zips here and there kicking paddle butt for the movie cameras. None of his movies have done well, and he's hoping to promote 'em with the title. ZAPPER: Shadow Paddle (DUBB) FATALITY: Harpoons victim, then rips victim in two, spew, spew. (DDDB) ENDING: Red Paddle's victory is told in a zillion newspapers and news specials, giving him the movie promotion he desires. He films Pong Kombat and its many sequels, until a horrible stage accident renders him deformed. Now he acts as a part time super-villain in Gotham City. BLUE PADDLE Master of the ancient art of altering time and space to suit his whimsy, this paddle gets by on energy blasts, vortexes, and other neat looking special effects. He's allergic to shellfish and likes telling bad puns. ZAPPER: Phase Ball (BBBB) FATALITY: Opponent paddle spirals down to the center of the screen, then goes SPLUT! (UBUB) ENDING: After winning the tournament and defeating the somewhat nasty White Paddle, Blue Paddle decides to market the tournament in computer-game format. However, he loses his shirt, (if paddles wore shirts), when he makes the unwise decision to make the game 486-specific requiring 4 megs of RAM and 25 megs disk space. Now he works as a doorstop for Bill Gates. YELLOW PADDLE The twisty-wisty Yellow Paddle is an expert in all things sinusoidal, and just loves to flaunt his skills in geometry and paddle-stomping. He desires the prize because he has nothing better to do with his degree. ZAPPER: Sine Wave (UDUD) FATALITY: Dig Dug air pump explosion (DUDU) ENDING: Yellow Paddle, now triumphant over all paddle-like objects, hocks his trophy for ten dollars and buys a flask of whisky. He begins a drunken tailspin into obsurity, and never resurfaces. GREEN PADDLE Master of the bow and arrow despite a lack of arms, Green Paddle is a formidable archer. She (yeah, paddles *do* have genders) is hoping to use the prize cup to store pencils in, and use the money to buy a soda. ZAPPER: Arrow (UDUB) FATALTY: Shoots an arrow which impales paddle on side of screen. Blood. (DUDB) ENDING: Green Paddle uses her trophy cup just as she wishes to--to store pencils in. She retires from the Pong Kombat curcuit and becomes an award- winning novelist, with a series about a female archer that retires and writes award-winning fantasy novels about a female archer that retires and...etc. PURPLE PADDLE Originally a plate spinner, Purple Paddle now spins razor sharp discs of fury. (Well, maybe not fury, but they are quite perturbed...) He desires the prize so he can brag to everyone who said he'd be a nobody. ZAPPER: Spinning Razor (UUUB) FATALITY: Razor slides behind the paddle... paddle falls into two long slices. (BUUU) ENDING: Purple Paddle, having defeated the others in a tournament of mortal pong, decides to use his new title to take over the world. He enslaves humanity and crushes every living thing in his path. Have a nice day. ***************************Secret Characters******************************** SECRET CHARACTERS There are two major secret characters in the game, Monolith, and Shifter. Shifter gives no clues like Monolith does. TO FIGHT MONOLITH Monolith lives... A ridiculously old half rock half plastic-thing, Monolith remains undefeated since the dawn of time in the art of Pong Kombat. He hides in cheap shareware games and trains monkeys in his spare time. He speaks of a few clues, but here's the whole story... every now and then on a missed ball, Nick Steele pops out and goes 'WHOOPSIE!'. If he does this on the Portal stage, press DOWN and your BUTTON. You must press these AFTER!!!! the speech clip finishes... there is a split second timing type thing. There will be an evil laugh, and Nick will vanish. At the end of the match, win or lose, the last person to down+button to Nick gets to fight Monolith. There is a one in ten chance of Nick showing on a lost ball. Monolith almost never misses a shot, and has large, fast-moving stars as weapons. He is relatively hard to kill. TO FIGHT SHIFTER On the Throne Room stage, execute a SPAMALITY. Spamalities are the sequence BUTTON, BUTTON, BUTTON, UP after the announcer yells 'FINISH HIM!'. There will not be a siren, but the screen will clear and your opponent is turned into two slabs of luncheon meat. Notice that the tablecloth is the same pattern as the toilet bowl water. (NOTE: Spamalities REQUIRE a flawless victory, or else nothing will happen.) Shifter blends into his background and NEVER misses a shot. His weapons are extremely hard to see, fly quite fast, and quite often. He is insanely hard to kill, but if you're good enough to get a spamality, you're probably close enough... SECRET CHARACTER CLUES CNIK NDA ONDW NDA NOTTUB Nick and Down and Button TRPOLA OT ONOMTLHI Portal to Monolith RTFEIHS SSTXIE Shifter Exists PID HSWTIC Dip Switch PMASLAITY Spamality EEHRW SI KEEZ DERCCTHTHNULU? Where Is Zeke Thunderclutch? Nick knows me I always win Find me I am Monolith You will die ****************************DIP Switches************************************* TO ACCESS DIP MODE Type `pongkomb DIP' to start the game. If you have a frame-rate change already stacked on the parameter line, use `pongkomb speed x DIP'. Alter the switches with up and down on the keypad. Left and right selects a switch, and space leaves the screen. Switch flips aren't saved after you quit Pong Kombat. You can also access the dip switches by typing `pongkomb JAM'. This will cause the opening screen to say `Pong Jam', as well as cause Nick to say `Boom shaka laka!' instead of the usual `Whoopsie!'. DIP SWITCHES and what they do. 1-comic advert on/off (default: off) Turns on and off the ad for FWLS Komiks and short stories. I installed the feature back when it looked like Komik would be out before Pong Kombat. No release date is set due to a NASTY bug. 2-fatality check on/off (default: on) Turns the blood on or off, except for Purple's weapon, which is drawn-in. I had to install this to qualify Pong Kombat as a school project. Kids, violence is evil. Bad! Bad! Stomp out violence! Kill all violent people! Maim! Dest... umm. But I digress. 3-taunts on/off (default: on) Shut Monolith up by clicking this to OFF. He can be annoying. 4-extra credits on/off (default: off) Flipping this on adds some more scanned photos of the staff that worked on the game to the end of the credits. Credits are shown after White Paddle's demise. 5-white first on/off (default: off) Turning this switch on will fast-forward the tournament mode right to white paddle. I used this to test the ending sequence. **************************Cool Stuff From Stefan***************************** And now, some words from Stefan on registration... As a registered player, you get the benefit of : - Five dollars off your next game at Putt-Putt. However, you may have to scream and shout and douse yourself in gasoline first to convince them, as this is a limited time offer. - No Red Lobster discount, but you get all the Red Lobster cheese garlic rolls you can eat! Mmmm! - Notification when version 2.0 is released, with sound fixes and more of what you love best : CARNAGE! Also, there is the secret handshake you can use to identify other registered Pong Kombatants. Take your index finger and wiggle it around the shaker's pinky finger. Then insert your middle finger between the shaker's second and fourth finger, then plug your thumb up the shaker's anus and say `GREEN PADDLE IS A BABE!'. PROPOSALS ON 2.0. Not much is definite on 2.0, except that it WILL be made, and WILL have better sound code. Also, White Paddle's animation death will be tweaked back into working order. Other ideas on the table. - Plaid Paddle - TOTALLY redone graphics - zones, sprites, the works - BGR effects for sound - CARNAGE AND BLOOD flies on weapon impact. THERE IS NO RELEASE DATE. It will definitely be done before the end of the school year, though (June 6th for us at APCS class) *****************************Special Thanks to******************************** Stefan Gagne..............................................gagne@locust.nic.net Liu Kang...............................................liukang@freenet.fsu.edu Josh Ewen...........................................st000069@brownvm.brown.edu Flavio "Blanka" Martins.........................flavio.martins@um.cc.umich.edu Mac Guidera................................................HCJP85A@prodigy.com Sean Nielsen..........................................sean@does.not.have.email Scott A. Janousek...................................scottj@titan.ucs.umass.edu