MIKIE Imagine 1985 CONTROLS : Keyboard, Kempston, Cursor --------------------------------------------------------------------- AIM : In school, Mikie has decided to take a message to his girl- friend in the schoolyard. This is far from an easy task though - which is where you come in... GAMEPLAY : Mikie has to go through five different areas: the classroom, locker room, canteen, gymnasium and schoolyard. In each area he must collect all the hearts on the screen before moving on to the next one. Each time he collects a heart, a letter is added to a message at the top of the screen. The staff, however, are not too happy at this and will do their best to catch Mikie! 1. CLASSROOM - Mikie must collect the hearts from under the seats of his classmates, who are sitting on the hearts. He has to bump people onto another seat before picking up the heart; meanwhile, the teacher will attempt to catch him and will occasionally get so frustrated that he throws his false teeth at Mikie. Contact with the teacher or the teeth loses you a life. HALLWAY : Having done that, you must leave the room and go into the hallway, where you will be presented with a row of doors. The one leading to the next room is marked with "in"; Mikie must go there while avoiding the patrolling janitor and teachers. 2. LOCKER ROOM - you must collect three hearts from each of the lockers, by facing a locker and shouting once for each heart, and avoid capture by the teachers. If they get too close, Mikie can pick up a basketball and hurl it at his pursuers to distract them. After the locker room, it's back into the hallway again. 3. CANTEEN - Mikie has to gather the gather the hearts scattered around on the floor and shout at the ones on the table. Again, you are pursued, this time by cooks; you can distract them by picking up chickens and throwing them at the pursuers. 4. GYMNASIUM - collect the hearts while avoiding the dancing girls. Contact with one stuns you, allowing the gym master to catch you. 5. SCHOOLYARD - Mikie has to collect all the hearts here while avoiding the three caretakers. If he gets them all, he can go to the top of the screen and give his girlfriend a kiss and his message. COMMENTS : "Another first-rate Konami conversion." RATING : 93% (CRASH #, February 1986) NOW : Graphically crude, with simplistic gameplay, Mikie is nothing special. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYS : Redefinable