Ha ha.. I finally was able to find the atari M*A*S*H rom. I was laughing really hard and I kept dying repeatedly, and if the circumstances are just right some music even plays while you're crashing your block of pixels into the other block of pixels and then a little block of pixels pushes your block of pixels away.
Uh, in other words, I have no idea what I'm doing and I died.
But according to the actual instructions... let's see.
The following is 20th Century Fox's instructions for M*A*S*H the Atari game. For the 2600 system.
MASH
TO SETUP:
Set up your video computer system and left and right joystick controllers as instructed in your maufacturer's owner's manual. Move the color B/W lever to the correct setting. Turn power off and insert the MASH game cartridge.
TO BEGIN:
Turn the power on. Use the Game Select lever - and Difficulty Switches to choose a play level. Press the Game reset lever and get ready to ship out to the Korean front!
THE OBJECTIVE:
You are Hawkeye Pierce, Chief Medical Surgeon of the 4077th MASH. Your responsibilities include rescuing injured men from the battlefield, performing surgery in the operating room, or, in an alternative game, picking up Colonel Potter's skydiving medics. You pilot your chopper low through the trees, avoiding shells fired at you from a North Korean tank. After picking up the medics orr wounded and rushing them back to the hospital, the pressure really starts to get heavy. Time is running out for the injured men and you must operate. You have to work fast. You are competing with your fellow surgeons, either B.J. Hunnicut, Trapper John McIntyre or Frank Burns.
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THE CONTROLS:
Tilt the joystick forward, backward, left and right to maneuver your chopper around the screen. Use the red trigger button to start games. Once in the operating room the joystick is used to maneuver your surgical instruments around the screen.
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DIFFICULTY SWITCHES:
LEFT DIFFICULTY: Position A - Left joystick player begins game with 0 points. Position B - Left joystick player begins game with 99 points. In position B the computer (Frank Burns) will get dumber the farther he gets ahead.
RIGHT DIFFICULTY: Position A - Right joystick player begins game with 0 points. Position B - Right joystick player begins game with 99 points. The right joystick player is the computer in 1 player games.
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CHALLANGER VARIATION:
With the left difficulty switch in position A the challenger mode is entered for 1 player games. Frank Burns will play at maximum intensity in this mode. Also Frank Burns will receive 8 points per second during the bonus surgery round.
Whenever your difficulty switch is in position A (1 player or 2 player games) your opponent will receive the point value of the shrapnel if it touches the patient while you are removing it.
PLAY LEVELS:
There are 8 play levels (or games) in MASH. Each game consists of sev- eral "rounds." A round ends when a certain number of men have been rescued. Between each round surgery is performed in the operating room. The exception is in games 7 and 8 which are devoted totally to the surgery game. The games are won by the first player to reach 999 points.
1)Welcome to Korea 1-player
2)Welcome to Korea 2player
3)Colonel Potter 1 player
4)Colonel Potter 2player
5)O.R.(Operating Room) 1 player
6)O.R.(Operating Room) 2 player
WELCOME TO KOREA
GAME 1 - In this game you, Hawkeye, must rescue more men than your computer opponent, Frank Burns. With your joystick, you maneauver through the forest of trees and pick up men by touching them with your helicopter. After rescuing 5 men your chopper will appear overloaded and you will not be able to take on more wounded until you have dropped them off at your MASH base. Every time you return to the base the point value of each man rescued is increased by 2 points. The maximum point value for a rescued man is 25 points. The North Korean tank at the bottom of the screen will chase the chopper which has the most points, and will launch projectiles whic you must dodge. If a chopper collides witha projec- tile it flutters to the gorund, where it is rescued by Klinger in the ambluance. The round is over after a total of 30 men are rescued. The airplane has no function in this game.
Between each round a bonus round of surgery is performed in the operating room where you must remove as many pieces of shrapnel as you can in 15 seconds. Shrapnel must not touch the patient. If it does, the bonus surgery round is over. In the normal variation (difficulty B) Frank Burns receives no points in the bonus surgery round. In the challenger version (difficulty A) Frank Burns receives 8 points per second plus the opint value of the shrapnel if it touches the patient.
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(For more details on surgery see games 7 and 8.)
GAME 2 - This game is identical to game 1 except the 2 players play against each other. One player uses the left joystick, while the other uses the right joysitck. In the operating room each player gets 15 seconds to removes as many pieces of shrapnel as possible. (For more details on surgery see games 7 and 8.)
COLONEL POTTER
GAME 3 - When we last left Colonel Potter he and his skydiving medics had just jumped from a plane without parachutes. Your mission is to rescue them before they reach teh ground. You maneuver your helicopter around the trees in order to rescue more medics than your computer opponent Frank Burns. Each man res- cued is worth a variable number of points. The close your chopper is to the ground when a medic is rescued the more points you receive (points vary from 5 at the
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top to 20 at the bottom). The North Korean tank at the bottom of the screen will chase the chopper who has the most points, and will launch projectiles which you must dodge. The round is over when a total of 40 medics have been rescued.
Between each round a bonus round of surgery is performed in the operating room. You have 15 seconds to remove as many pieces of shrapnel as possible. Again Frank Burns will receive no points in the nomral version. However he will receive points in teh challenger variation. (See games 7 and 8 for more details.)
CEASE FIRE
GAME 5 - The shooting has stopped but the wounded keep coming. Playing this game is similar to playing game 1 except that the tank has stopped launching projectiles. You also have smaller helicopters for ease in rescuing the injured men.
GAME 6 - This game is identical to game 5 except that 2 players compete against each other, one using the left joystick while the other uses the right joystick.
O.R. (OPERATING ROOM)
GAME 7 - You're in the operating room where you must remove bits of shrapnel from an injured man using your extractor. You play against Frank Burns who receivs 6 points per second. Each piece of shrapnel is worth a varying unmber of points depending on the difficulty of its removal. If the shrapnel touches your patient while it is being removed your turn is ended. Point values range from 15 to 80. In the challanger version (left difficulty switch in position A), Frank Burns receives the point value of any piece of shrapnel that touches the patient.
GAME 8 - This game is very similar to GAME 7 except that each player has 15 seconds in which to remove as many pieces of shrampen as possible. When his turn ends, the next player's turn starts. And in the challenger variation (difficulty switch in position A) your opponent receives points if the shrapnel touches the man while it is being removed.
HINTS FROM DALLAS NORTH...
In the 'Welcome to Korea' and 'Cease Fire' game, try to plan your routes so they require no needless detours. Rescue a man on one pass, and try to force your opponent to conver as much ground as possible. In two player versions the player who rescues the last guy gets to start first in the operating room, a big advantage when scores get close to 999 points.
In the operating room games, a gentle tap on the joystick will yield much better results in moving the extractor than a brute force approach. And any part of the extractor can be used to remove shrapnel, which comes in handy in a few of the tight corners.
In the Colonel Potter games quick reflexes are more important than strategy. And the tank stops shooting when someone is being rescued by the ambulance so you can be more aggressive in rescuing medics during this time. And notice that Frank Burns' helicopter is able to fly through trees, while you must fly around them.
This advantage must be compensated for by superior strategy and intelligence.
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A Game By Dallas North
(C) 1983 Fox Video Games, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
Mash is a trademark of
Twentieth Century Fox Corporation.You know... it's unhealthy to anthropomorphize little blocks of pixels like that. But awww, Klinger drives the little block of pi--er... "ambulance".
Marvel at the thrilling gameplay. I think the little pink thing at the bottom is either the "ambulance" or that asshole tank that keeps shooting at me. Dammit! Shoot at Frank!! SHOOT AT HIM!!! Not me!
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