[Image]Sir_Lancelot[Image] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ColecoVision Cartridge Instructions for Sir Lancelot by Xonox ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAIL SIR LANCELOT! You have taken the challenge of a mighty quest. This ancient and mystical land has been taken over by villainous beasts who are terrorizing the countryside. Armed with your charmed lance and riding your winged steed, Pegasus, you set out to save a maiden held prisoner in her castle by a fire- breathing dragon. On your way to the castle you encounter evil flying creatures that try stop you. You must defeat them in order to reach the castle and face the fire-breathing dragon. If you are successful against the dragon, new quests await you as new creatures with greater powers and more devastating dragons test the nerves and skill of Sir Lancelot. FARE THEE WELL! Get Ready to Play SIR LANCELOT 1. Hook up your video game system. Follow the manufacturer's directions. 2. Always turn the console power switch "OFF" when inserting or removing a XONOX cartridge. This will protect the electronic components and help prolong the life of your XONOX games. 4. Plug in both joystick controllers. For single player use left joystick. For two player games. player # 1 use left joystick and player #2 use right. 5. Select game options per screen instructions and pressing appropriate button on keypad. Console Reset starts game from opening theme. # button returns at game conclusion to game option screen. 6. For full enjoyment of the game read the instruction manual. NOTE: You may need to adjust your Vertical Hold on your T.V. SIR LANCELOT Video Game You are SIR LANCELOT. Astride your winged horse PEGASUS, you set out on a quest to save a poor maiden held prisoner in a castle by a fire-breathing dragon. As you start your journey winged creatures will try to kill you. but with your charmed lance and careful flying by PEGASUS. you can overcome their challenge. You collect points for each creature destroyed and when all are gone you reach the castle and face the dragon. The wily dragon is in the dungeon over a deadly lava pool where you must evade his fiery breath in your fight to the death. The fire will not kill you, but will temporarily stun PEGASUS so he cannot flap his wings. Kill the dragon with your lance and you will save the maiden. Once the dragon is killed, you will face new creatures guarding another castle. and these defenders will have heard of your exploits and be more difficult and so will the dragon. 1. OBJECT of the GAME: To fight your way to the castle. kill the dragon, save the maiden, and start another quest--points are awarded for defeating the creatures-highest score wins. 2. CONTROLS: For one or two players. Use joysticks to control the flight of Sir Lancelot and Pegasus. Fire buttons flap wings. 3. SCORE DISPLAY: At the top of the screen your score will be displayed (both one and two player options). Up -> indicates which player is in control. At the bottom of the screen the number of lives remaining is indicated. A DIFFICULTY LEVELS: a) As you succeed in killing the flying creatures outside the castle and the dragon inside guarding the maiden, you will automatically advance to a higher skill level game. b) If you want to practice against a certain level of creatures and dragon. you may select the level by hitting the appropriate game option button on your keypad when starting a game. 1. Screen #l THE FLYING SNAKES As SIR LANCELOT starts his quest to save the first maiden, CAROLYN. held captive in the castle, he must defeat all of the flying snakes by spearing them with his lance, They are fairly primitive creatures. for they fly in a horizontal pattern. Kill all the creatures, and you will advance to face the first dragon. 2. Screen #2--THE OLD DRAGON You have reached the castle dungeon and you see the imprisoned damsel, CAROLYN. A mean old dragon guards the cavern and prevents the fair CAROLYN from escaping. You must vanquish this dragon to free her. Be careful of his fiery breath, for it will stun PEGASUS, and be quick about it or the lava pool will consume both the fair maiden and yourself. 3. Screen #3--THE MONSTER BEES You have completed your first quest. but there are more maidens in trouble These fierce fellows are not just ordinary bees, they are bigger and certainly smarter than the creatures in your first quest. They've heard of your powers and they will reverse their directions in order to catch you o@ guard. Destroy the bees and proceed to the castle to save the maiden SARAH. 5. Screen #5--THE KILLER DRAGONFLIES Tougher than any quest to date, this castle is surrounded by a horde of dive bombing dragonflies! They not only reverse directions like the MONSTER BEES. but they also swoop down and rise up to keep you from your goal. Careful flying and joystick control can make you the victor, and allow you to go on to the castle where the maiden LAUREN is held captive. 6. Screen #6--JAREK THE SPEEDY This fast flying. fire spitting dragon will show you no mercy Be quick to your task or JAREK will send you and PEGASUS swimming in boiling lava but you can succeed in saving the fair LAUREN, if you can dodge JAREK'S rapid fire breath with your joystick skills! 7. Screen #7--THE INVISIBLE INVINCIBLES SIR LANCELOT'S great skills as a fighter will surely be tested by these creatures whose eyes are the only thing visible on them. They fly fast. they turn and dive and they don't want you to succeed in your quest. You can do it. but you must be more clever than they are in order to triumph. There are eight different game screens in the game, each with different and successively more difficult creatures with which SIR LANCELOT does battle 4. Screen #4--YOUNG GROK THE DRAGON Unlike the old dragon you met in the first castle, young GROK is a lot faster in his flying and he breathes his fire more often and more accurately So fly fast and time your lance attack or you will be stunned repeatedly and fall into the lava pool You must save poor SARAH from the beast 8. Screen #8--HANEK THE HORRIBLE HANEK flies at a ferocious speed and turns and breathes his fire at an incredible pace Only the very best possible efforts can lead SIR LANCELOT to HANEK'S defeat. You must outfly outturn. and outmaneuver HANEK if you are going to succeed to save the maiden, ELISABETH. from a fate worse than death! And if you do. you will go on to still another quest. but what? PLAY ACTION--Screens #1, #3, #5, #7 OUTSIDE THE CASTLES When the game begins, SIR LANCELOT has been challenged to free the land from villainous flying beasts and to save the fair maidens from their captors, the dragons. Each of the castles in the quest are surrounded by successively more dangerous flying creatures that try to keep SIR LANCELOT from reaching the castle and saving the maiden. FLIGHT AND CONTROL Using your FIRE BUTTON to control the flapping wings of SIR LANCELOT'S flying horse. PEGASUS, and using the JOYSTICK to guide your direction and deadly lance, you control SIR LANCELOT'S attack of the beasts. To maintain flight, the player must repeatedly push the FIRE BUTTON to flap PEGASUS' wings. The frequency of his wing beats determines a climb. hover, or dive Left or right JOYSTICK direction combined with wing flapping will create horizontal flight. Upward or downward JOYSTICK direction will produce a climb or a dive. Reversing direction during horizontal flight will stop forward momentum. PEGASUS will not turn upside down so loops and inverted flight are not possible--otherwise SIR LANCELOT would fall off! COMBAT In order for SIR LANCELOT to rid the air of the beasts and clear his path to the castles. he must use his lance to destroy the creatures. A foes increase in difficulty through Screens # 1, #3, #5 and #7, the same basic rules for combat apply The differences are found in the special of attack and flying skills. Because of SIR LANCELOT'S weapon, the lance, a planned collision results in the creature's defeat. If only one of the combatants is facing the collision point, then he wins. If both of the combatants are facing each other, the higher one wins. If both are at the same height, then it is a tie and neither SIR LANCELOT nor the beast will be destroyed. If neither the creature nor SIR LANCELOT are facing each other, again it is a tie. When a tie occurs, the two combatants "bounce" off each other. PLAY ACTION--Screens #2, #4, #6, #8 THE LAVA POOL INSIDE THE CASTLE After you have defeated the creatures outside of a castle. SIR LANCELOT moves to the scene inside the castle where a dragon holds a maiden captive. Each of the maidens in successive screens have different colored dresses on. Each combat arena has a ledge where SIR LANCELOT starts and can rest, and each is guarded by a successively more difficult dragon that must be defeated. Do not tarry, for the lava pool is rising and it will consume the maiden and even SIR LANCELOT if you can't quickly dispense the dragon. DRAGON COMBAT By using your flying skills you must defeat the dragons by spearing your lance into the soft stomach of the monsters. The wily dragon will fly and turn in his attempt to breath fire at you and stun Pegasus. You must guide your lance into his soft underbelly--touch him elsewhere and you're defeated--so fly with skill. You must be quick to avoid the fire from the dragon. Each successive screen will have faster. more accurate dragons whose stomachs have more and more armor. In the highest screens a direct hit is necessary in the exact middle of the stomach to be victorious. Once the dragon is killed. you will save the maiden. and you will go on to a harder quest. FARE THEE WELL! SCORING When battling the castle defenders. SIR LANCELOT gets points for killing the creatures and bonuses for killing them quickly (within one second from one kill to the next). SCREEN #l--THE FLYING SNAKES Kill Snake 250 points 1st Quick Kill 1,000 points 2nd Quick Kill 2.000 points 3rd Quick Kill 5,000 points When battling the dragons. points are awarded to SIR LANCELOT for each one and one half seconds survived, for killing the dragons, and a bonus for killing the dragons in time to save the damsels. SCREEN #2--THE OLD DRAGON Survive 1 1/2 seconds 10 points Kill Old Dragon 2,500 points Save CAROLYN 10,000 points SCREEN #3--THE MONSTER BEES Kill Monster Bee 750 points 1st Quick Kill 1,750 points 2nd Quick Kill 4,000 points 3rd Quick Kill 10,000 points SCREEN #4--YOUNG GROK THE DRAGON Survive 1 1/2 seconds 20 points Kill Young GROK 5,000 points Save SARAH 20,000 points SCREEN #5--THE KILLER DRAGONFLIES Kill the Dragonfly 1,500 points 1st Quick Kill 3,500 points 2nd Quick Kill 6,000 points 3rd Quick Kill 15,000 points SCREEN #6--JAREK THE SPEEDY Survive 1 1/2 seconds 30 points Kill JAREK 7,500 points Save LAUREN 40,000 points SCREEN #7--THE INVISIBLE INVINCIBLES Kill an Invincible 3,000 points 1st Quick Kill 5,000 points 2nd Quick Kill 8,000 points 3rd Quick Kill 20,000 points SCREEN #8--HANEK THE HORRIBLE Survive 1 1/2 seconds 40 points Kill HANEK 10,000 points Save ELISABETH 80,000 points BONUS LIVES For each 100.000 points awarded. SIR LANCELOT gets a bonus life up to a maximum of six extra lives at any given moment --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document obtained from the History of Home Video Games Homepage, ©1997 by Greg Chance