Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum
NES-XY-USADash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum Instruction ManualData East(r)---Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum(tm)You're Dash Galaxy, fearless Space Explorer. You've just landed a thousandlight years from home on an alien planet filled with strange creatures, deadlyforce fields and dangerous pitfalls.Your Mission: to make your way through the incredible maze of rocket rooms andelevator shafts and return safely to your ship. Using your amazing athleticability, you must enter all the rooms on each level and successfully collecteverything in each room. You've only got a limited supply of oxygen, so you'vegot to get all the objects and make a mad dash for the door before you run outof air!Watch out for those slime-sucking aliens. They'll take your breath away. It'stime to show those freaks what an earthling can do! Are you ready for the challenge? They don't call you Dash for nothing - you can jump and run betterthan anyone in the Universe.Data East brings you arcade realism at home!---How to play1) Make sure your Nintendo Entertainment System is off, then put the Dash   Galaxy Game Pak in the system.2) Press the Power button on the front of the system. After a few preliminary   screens, the Dash Galaxy title screens will appear.3) Make sure the controller is plugged into socket 1, then press the Start   button on the controller.4) Press the A button, on controller one to begin play.5) To skip the information and start the game immediately, press Select on     controller 1.BriefingYou begin in the elevator shaft of each floor. You must enter rooms by passingthrough doorways. Sometimes the doors are blocked by force fields or largeblocks. Once in the room, you have to turn off all switches inside before thedoor will open again to let you out. You must successfully go in and out of every room on one floor before you move up to the next floor. In the rooms, you can move up and down by using ladders or jumping on the trampolines.---Operating instructionsButton A and arrow key at the same time: Moves blocks in the direction you want.To make Dash run left or right, hold down the appropriate arrow key. Use theUp and Down arrow keys to move Dash up and down ladders.Button A: To jump straight up, press Up on the control pad and press button Aat the same time.When Dash is running and Button A is pressed, he makes a leaping long jump left or right.In both the elevator shafts and rooms:Button B: When you have time bombs in your inventory press button B to set oneoff.Start button: Press this button to begin the game. If you wish to pause thegame at any time during game play, press the Start button. To return to thegame, press Start again.---ObjectsKeys: It's always a good idea to pick up objects. You never know when you mayneed some help. Keys enable you to pass through force fields. When you havekeys in your inventory you can walk through a force field. Your inventory willthen be reduced by one. If you don't have a key and you walk into a forcefield, you will lose a life.Bombs: Bombs can be used to blow up enemies in the rooms or blow up blocks orforce fields in the elevators. A bomb will automatically detonate 3 secondsafter it is set. Don't stand too close or it can blow you up too! To set abomb, press Button B.Detonators: When you have a detonator in your inventory, you can set the bomboff anytime you want to. To detonate a bomb, press Button B again after you set the bomb.Stars: Whenever you collect 10 orange Stars, you become invincible for a shortperiod of time. Your enemies cannot hurt you. However, you can still run outof oxygen or jump off a platform into the abyss if you're not careful.Oxygen: You start out with a fresh supply of oxygen in each room. Full oxygenis replaced by the green bar on the lower right of your screen. As you use upthe oxygen, the green bar turns red. When it turns completely red, you'rehistory. Whenever you see an oxygen container, it's a good idea to pick oneup.Oxygen Flasks: You should pick these up to restore oxygen.Lives: You start out with four lives. Every time you pick up a heart, you gainan additional life.Switches: You must turn off all switches in each room before continuing.---ScoringPicking up Objects - 25 pointsGold Stars - 50 pointsBlue Start - 100 pointsCompleting a room or an elevator shaft - 5 times the amount of oxygen left(which can be 0 to 63 points)Completing a Level - 250 pointsHidden Treasures!On some floors, you may find secret rooms. If you figure out how to get intothese rooms, you will find bonus goodies inside. Also, there are hidden express elevators that enable you to get to other floors. But, beware - thiscan pay off and take you to higher floors or you could end up dropping backseveral levels.