The New Zealand Story
(c) 1988 Taito Corporation
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New Zealand Story, The Wally Walrus has captured his tea - 20 of Tiki Kiwis friends from the New Zealand Zoo, and if Tiki doesn't rescue them all by tea-time they'll be stuffed, served and swallowed at Wally's table. Tiki has to search Wally's domain which is just how you would expect it to be - FAT with danger! Armed with only a bow and arrows, Tiki can accumulate more weapons along the way. Beware of the malicious rabbits, boomerang throwers, deadly frogs, bloodsucking bats and many, many more villainous creatures.
In the earlier levels, you will be shown arrows on the background which indicate the direction you must go to release the captive Kiwi on that level, but beware, on certain stages, releasing your friend alerts the big guardian creature of that level, and you must first find a way of defeating it before progressing to the next level. Hint: you must allow yourself to be swallowed by the Whale so you can destroy him from the inside! Because the various lairs of the Walrus are so well guarded, we cannot brief you further. Your techniques will develop as you play the game and each new level presents new, frantic and more original challenges! Note - make sure you do not waste time sightseeing as you have a limited period to complete each level. Status and Scoring Around the edge of the screen are displayed the player's remaining lives, the score and an 02 Oxygen meter, which decreases while the player is in the water. The game finishes when the player's lives are exhausted or when he/she clears all the screens and reaches the end. For each special item which is collected you will get 1000 points. Fruits range between 300 and 8000 points. For each enemy which is killed the score ranges between 100 and 500 points, and the big boss characters are worth 10000, 20000, 30000, 40000 and 50000 points. Hints and Tips - When in water, oxygen can be replenished by raising Tiki's head above the water - then spit by pressing fire if you want to gain oxygen quickly. - Steal balloons by jumping on them while the baddie is still on, pushing him off. - Use the duck balloon when you need speed. Two Versions of Newzealand Story Yes it's true. For a number of games (Rainbow Islands for instance) Taito released two versions of their games; a normal and an `extra` version. The extra versions were like a remixed edition of the original release. Quite why Taito saw fit to release two versions of some of their titles I don't know. Newzealand Story is one such title given the Taito double-title release. The regular version of Newzealand Story will be familiar to those of you who've played the home computer/console versions licensed by Ocean Software. I've only had the `extra` version
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