IT HAS BEGUN!! (insert wacky tekn0 music here) PONG KOMBAT 2 Designed by Ryan Sadwick Productions & Art Entertainment Based on the original Pong Kombat by Gagne Software Which in turn Was based on an original game by Midway And a really old game by Atari. WARNING: IT IS ILLEGAL TO DISTRIBUTE THIS GAME ON ANY MEDIA THAT WILL BE SOLD, EVEN FOR COPYING FEES. THE OFFICIAL KOMBAT DOKUMENT SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS IBM compatable 386 or above (486 recommended) Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 or Windows NT or Windows Whatever 4 MB Ram 20 megs of free disk space A mouse A keyboard (duh) *HiColor (65536 colors, i.e., 2 megs video memory) or higher (supports 256 colors with downgraded image quality) *Any Windows-compatable soundcard. *Two button joystick * Optional __________________________________ About the Parental Advisory logo- This game contains the dismantling of paddles. Blood and gore may squirt out of these mean-looking things and may scare very, very young children. So parental descretion is advised. THE REASON D'ETRE OF PONG KOMBAT 2. Forward by Stefan Gagne. Being a poor student with little time or resources on my hands, I have little time to actually make games. The stars aligned ONCE for Pong Kombat 1, which was made as a class project so I would not fail AP Computer Science, and was released to the net for a few of my net.friends, figuring maybe six people would look at it. 30,000 e-mails and snail mail letters later the phenomenon had gone clearly out of my hands. It was good and wonderful and all, but I was not gonna be able to hold up the dynasty (if there was to be one) any longer. So I put it on the shelf until such time that I'd have the resources and the appropriately low level of sanity to take the paddle up again. I didn't have to. Ryan and his cohorts has the balls to make the bloody thing without asking me. But instead of extreme violence on his personage, I looked at the product and realized, yeah, this is pretty much in line with the rampant silliness and parody of Pong Kombat. So, why not? Life is funny that way and these guys had the drive to do something special, something relatively unique and certainly creative. The universe deserved another Pong Kombat game. Ergo : this. It's retroactively officially sanctioned by Gagne Software (all one of us) and available for your entertainment. It has begun. But e-mail HIM, not ME! Him! HIM!! :) -Stefan Gagne ___________________________________________ This game is dedicated to Arturo Aquino, my family, Pong Kombat fans, the people who died in Atlanta's Olympic bombings, and the U.S.A (Only in America Baby!) -Ryan Sadwick ___________________________________________ NEWALITIES (What makes PK2 the best of what's left of the best of the rest) -New "Perspective" look! -More paddles! -More challenge! -More secrets! -New gameplay -Dismantles -Sound effects! -Other things worthy of exclamation marks! ___________________________________________ INSTALLATION 1. Run the SETUP.EXE provided, via File Manager, Explorer, or whatever you like to use for your file browsing needs. 2. Click on "INSTALL PONG KOMBAT 2 " 3. Pick a directory to dump the files into. 4. Wait awhile 5. Voila (Literally, 'This is a violin') The game is installed and an icon ready in your Program Manager / Start Bar. 6. Click the icon and experience with a finely chilled beverage. ___________________________________________ AND NOW, THE CREATIVE STUFF. STORY AND PLOT Years have passed since the defeat of White Paddle at the annual Pong Lao Tournament and Swap Meet. The victor, Green Paddle, famed archer with nothing better to do that day other than triumph over evil, decided to retire to a life of writing. Good for her. White Paddle didn't get off so easy. His superiors were Really Not Happy At All with his performance, and sent him to the outer cult of Pong Lao to be judged. But there... something... happened. He met up with... something... and that something gave him is soul... with... some catch... deliver the world... into... something's... hands... if... paddles... had.......... hands.................... Ahem. Enough spooky tension. Anyway, White cheerfully went about inviting/insisting/forcing various paddles to come to a second tournament, with the goal of destroying them all because for some reason this would be very beneficial to him. He's hoping his newly hired second in command, the aptly named Chief Paddle, will just eat 'em for him so he doesn't have to do anything. What a loser. _________________________________________________ ENOUGH ARTSY CRAP, HOW DO I PLAY? First, start the game. This step is not optional. Enjoy the nice opening sequence, then you get an eye pleasing menu of choices. If you would like to see the story, wait a few seconds at the start & options screen. If you wait for a few seconds, the story will come up. START - Start up a game of Pong Kombat 2 OPTIONS - Browse various options to modify game play. If you pick options, you can Reboot the game (great for watching the title sequence over), Quit game, so you can get back to doing your real work, or 2 Player Mode, so you can kick your friend's butt! So many choices! Whatever. Once your ready to rock, Start a game. You get a nice looking paddle selection screen. The names of the paddle's are, clockwise from the top: White Paddle (Not playable), Aqua Paddle, Monolith, Green Paddle, Cyber Paddle, Bloodstone, Rock Paddle, Spike Paddle, Shifter, and Magma Paddle. Nine paddles in all, each have different characteristics (speed, weapons, yadda yadda.) If you wanna randomly pick a paddle, press Button 1 and Button 2 at the same time rapidly here. CONTROLS PLAYER 1 (1 Player mode & 2 player mode) UP - UP ARROW DOWN - DOWN ARROW LEFT - LEFT ARROW RIGHT - RIGHT ARROW BUTTON 1 - SHIFT BUTTON 2 - CTRL PLAYER 2 (2 Player mode only) UP - 8 (Num. Pad) DOWN - 2 (Num. Pad) LEFT - 4 (Num. Pad) RIGHT - 6 (Num. Pad) BUTTON 1 - + (Num. Pad) BUTTON 2 - Enter (Num. Pad) If you want to reconfigure the controls for the keyboard, press CTRL + Y. Put the "X" on player 1 or 2 and a list will come up of the buttons you wish to change. You can not change the config. for the joystick. If you play this game at your workplace or school classroom and your boss\teacher comes in, it F5 for the BOSS ACTIVATOR. This will hide the game. When they leave, hit F5 again to bring back the game. To pause the game at any time, hit CTRL+P. Intuitive, no? Once you pick your paddle, the game cycle begins with your first opponent. But before you actually get around to that thing where you bounce a ball around, there are seven boxes to look at the bottom of the VS. screen. These are, as you probably guessed, good for unlocking secrets. If you get the right combo of symbols in 'em, mystical and cosmic things occur. The change the symbol in a box, hit the key corresponding to the box you want to toggle. The first 3 safes are accessed by pressing 1, 2, or 3. The last 4 can be accessed by pressing 1, 2, 3, 4 on the right side of the keyboard. The symbols are as follows, in accordance to number of times you gotta hit the button to shift to that image. (This is similar to the system in sequel three of That Other Game, for those familiar.) 0- Peace, dude. 1- PK2 2- Question Mark 3- Se7en 4- Explanation Point 5- PK1 (Ah. The classics.) 6- Bomb 7- Yin Yang. If you're sick of dealing with cryptic little codes and don't wanna bother, just hit enter and make your life easier. Now, it's the main event. Mano a Mano. Paddleo a Paddleo. You have a few things to keep track of: a life bar, your score, a timer, and (obviously) your paddle. Oh, and that ball thing. You lose all your life, you's dead and your opponent wins. If your opponent scores too much before you do, he wins. Ouch. It's a tough world out there, but you can fight back by getting the ball past him, nailing him with a special weapon, finding secrets, or performing a DISMANTLE. Lots of nice ways to win! Let's take them one at a time. Getting the ball past is a fairly obvious procedure. Special are not. Each paddle has weapons available; what good brawl lacks them? But launch a weapon you need to enter a Code, or Special Move, or whatever you like to call it. What is that code? Gotta find out, holmes. But here's one you can practice with: Monolith's Star. Hit DOWN, FORWARD, BACK, BUTTON 2 two times. Wow! Next you have Dismantles. Tricky, but oh so satisfying. If you've beaten down your adverse lots and they're near death you might get a "DISMANTLE IT!" message. Then... YES! It's another secret combination of key presses! Man, didn't see that coming, did you? Ahem. In the unfortunate event of your demise and the GAME OVER logo, you have another chance. If the timer runs out, both paddles are kick out of the meet. It's... yes. It's a code. Don't look at me like that. Pick 'Enter Code' and you'll have two chances to hit a secret which will put you back in the game in a big way. Mind you, it costs one credit to do this, and you can't exactly insert tokens into A:. That's all there is to it. ______________________________________________ BUGS & ERRORS Ah... bugs. Bane of all programmers, foiler of fun. We think all the bugs are out of PK2, but if you find one, use the contact information below and we'll do our best to squash it. Another version of PK2 is in the works, tentatively titled Supreme PK2. This should have anything cool we left out of this version. There is no set release date : it will be out when it is done. If you can't wait, go play Quake or something. If you're getting slowdown problems, it's probably because your computer's too slow. (Hence 'Slowdown.') It might help to free up some hard disk space for the virtual memory et all, though. The colors also need to be changed to 65536 or higher. If they are not, we have found that the game is REALLY slow! If the graphics don't look very good, it may be because of your video mode. We designed the game with high quality HiColor (65536 colors) in mind, and you should try running it in HiColor or Truecolor mode. If your video card isn't capable of it, this isn't possible; but it's a good idea to upgrade your card to a 2 meg high color card anyway. It really makes Netscape and other 'apps look much better, and lets you do some nice stuff. How do I use the joystick? At anytime hit CTRL+Y. Then put the "X" on joystick. If you want to reconfigure the controls for the keyboard, put the "X" on player 1 or 2 and a list will come up of the buttons you wish to change. You can not change the config. for the joystick. My joystick does not work. It must have two buttons and has to be calibrated. We tested the game with the "Gravis PC Game Pad." It should work perfectly with that. Make sure the reverse and turbo switches are off. If you lose or are about to lose, DO NOT bang on the key board, or press all the buttons (arrow keys) really fast. If you do this, we found that an error appears and you'll have to reboot your computer. No, it doesn't work in DOS. PK1 does, though. --------------------------------------------------------------- LET'S MEET OUR CONTESTANTS All key sequences are the same for player 1 or player 2. Aqua Paddle She was created by White Paddle, when he got bored one day and had this genetics kit lying around. Then she finds out her daddy wants to kind of take over the planet and kill everybody. This isn't in line with her mode of thought, so she comes up with a simple, yet cunning plan : Kill him first. Monolith Monolith once was White Paddle's right hand man, despite not being a man and the lack of arms on paddles. He got a pink slip recently when White found someone he liked better, and has decided to get a little revenge on his old boss and his replacement by entering the tourney. Green Paddle White made something of a mistake here, doing the classic villain thing of coming around town and killing all of the Hero's family. (Heroine, in this case. Yes, it's a female paddle.) Green wasn't happy about this and decided to go get him in the next tournament. Cyber Paddle A mysterious, robotic paddle whose programming seems to be 'Kill Shifter'. You just can't argue with tight, efficient coding like that. Not much else is known about him. Bloodstone Even less is known about him except his ex- membership in the Pong Lao Cult. Chicks dig a mysterious past, though. Rock Paddle Arising from the barren wastelands of New Jersey, Rock was invited personally by White. His thirst for destruction is something even Gatorade can't quench, and his desire is to make all the world a barren wasteland. Well, at least he has goals. Spike Paddle Spike kind of gatecrashed the party. Nobody invited him, but White admired his courage and decided to let him stay, despite Spike's intentions to kill White Paddle. Shifter Once a hush-hush secret paddle in Pong Kombat 1 and silent bodyguard of White Paddle, Shifter has crawled from his subtoilet sewer home to turn against White Paddle and restore his world back to normality. Magma Paddle He was a normal, dull, everyday paddle. Then White Paddle challenged him to a duel, and kicked his sorry behind into a volcano. White didn't realize that the volcanic lava gave this paddle Phenomenal Powers and a serious grudge. With this new identity, he enters the tournament to : surprise! Kill White Paddle. Chief Paddle Hand picked by White Paddle from Goons 'R Us, nothing is known about him. Rumor has it he lost to White awhile back, though. White Paddle The leader of the pack. He joined the Pong Lao cult and wiped out their leader, much to the cult's dismay. He stupidly hosted the next Pong Lao Tournament and Swap Meet and had his paddle beaten in by Green Paddle. The cult slapped his wrists and took away his soul, until... something claimed it. Under this something's guidance, he has arisen once more. Drat the luck. Secret Paddles... who knows what lurks out there? ---------------------------------------------------------------- CONTEST Here's your chance to enter the PK2 Paddle Giveaway and maybe make something of yourself. Send us the following slip (filled out, of course) or e-mail it preferably to be in the drawing. The grand prize (only prize, actually) is to have your paddle design in the next variant of Pong Kombat 2. It'll have the special moves YOU design, YOUR dismantles, give it a background and a story, what have you. Be creative. Be cool. Impress us. Entries must be received by 1/1/97 to be eligible. Spamming us with mail beyond that point isn't worth your while, really. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON. Mailing multiples is a great way to disqualify yourself. If you win, we'll be in touch. THE PK2 PADDLE GIVEAWAY CONTEST - Fill out and e-mail or snail mail. Last Name : _____________________ First Name : ________________ Address : _____________________________________________________ Phone (Optional) (___) ___-____ City : _______________________ State : ____ Zip : ________ Age (Optional) : ________________ e-mail Address : ______________________________________________ E-Mail us a very detailed descriptions. (Paddle name, background, story, dismantle, ending, or any more things you can think up.) Send to : E-MAIL SNAIL MAIL Deb4k@aol.com Ryan Sadwick Productions & Art Entertainment 11319 Palm Pasture Dr. Tampa, FL 33635 This contest is free. If you win, you must give us permission to use your design. You will get credit for your work. We will not be paying any money. ---------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION Registration is fun, registration is good, and unlike PK1, will be replied to because we have enough time to do so. :) Last Name : _____________________ First Name : ________________ Address : _____________________________________________________ Phone (Optional) (___) ___-____ City : _______________________ State : ____ Zip : ________ Age (Optional) : ________________ e-mail Address : ______________________________________________ Use the same sending addys as the contest above. ---------------------------------------------------------------- LAST WORDS - When it's done, Supreme PK2 will be out. - Our next endeavor might be an RPG or fighting game. - A hintbook *might* come out. - No one paid us a cent, nor did we ask for payment. This game is for fun and the legacy of Pong Kombat! ---------------------------------------------------------------- CREDITS Code / Art / Sound / Yadda Ryan Sadwick Productions & Art Entertainment Documentation Stefan Gagne Based on Pong Kombat 1 by Gagne Software. Used with permission. Thank you, drive through.