Re: Rescue Raiders cheat?

[gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)]

In article <4athh2$c5s@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> mlamorte@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Mike LaMorte) writes:
>Johnny Lau (be063@torfree.net) wrote:
>: What's the cheat for Rescue Raiders? Someone told me to key the word 
>: "bobbypin" during the game while another told me to key "zorro" during 
>: the game. However, neither of them work. What's, (if there is,) the 
>: official cheat word to key in?

>Try "zippy", "poppy", or "hoppy". One will work, depending on the version.

	"poppy" means you have the original version... "zippy" means you
have the _pirated_ version!  =^)  (never heard about "hoppy" though)

	This is one of my favorite stories on the Apple//.  I can't
remember where I read about it, but the person who cracked the game
changed the word from poppy to zippy just to see what would happen.
Later magazines would be printing up in their game sections about
typing "zippy" to access the cheat keys. =^)
	I remember seeing this in Family Computing (when they had the
K-Power section) saying something like "type POPPY, but if that doesn't
work, try ZIPPY".

>BTW... if you leave it turned on, it will eventually freeze the game. So

	never did crash on me, then again I never really got far in
the game.  I used to enjoy just hovering around my base and launching
constant barrages of heat-seekers to completely level everything, and
maybe send out some engineers to fix up those AA-guns.

>turn it off (by typing it again) at the end of each level, and then turn
>it on at the beginning of the new one. The keys commands (when turned on)
>are as follows:

>	<return> - bulletproof
>	/	 - extra helicopter
>	jkl	 - teleports you far laft, right, or center, respectively
>	- & #	 - press the "-" key then the number of the level you want
>		   to jump to (i.e. "-3" will jump you to level 3)
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