Hermetic             1993 (Markt & Technik)
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The Story
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Far away from the earth, the planet Hermetic is rotating. But it's energy
system just collapsed...

The emergency systems were turned on and the crisis handling committee
tried to find a solution.

Four pilots are send out to find a new planet, but they do not succeed.

Commander Hermes flies to a nearby station, there he reads about "Haag",
a gambler's paradise.

His idea is to gamble for a new energy technology. If he wins, he
is provided a new technology. If he loses, Hermetic's people will
become slaves...

The government of Hermetic givey the okay, and so commander Hermes
flies to Haag.

There he meets Crowin, chief of Haag. Crowin tells him about the game he
must win: H.A.M.M. (Haag's Aggressive Maneuver-Moon).

So commander Hermes flies to H.A.M.M., where six stages full of ships and
robots wait for him.

This is the beginning of the game.

You fly with your glider through the stages. 5 times you may die, but then
you have lost and Hermetic will end in slavery.



The Men
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Before the start, you can select in men if you want to play with
one or two players (no teammode). You also can choose the joyport.
There's also the possibility to choose sound-fx or music.



The Highscore-list
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When you are game over, you get into the Highscore-list. If you are good,
you can enter your name. The Highscore-list is saved. 



The Game
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You have to master six levels. Each level is divided into three sublevels.
When you have completed a level, you must fight against a large guard, half
machine, half animal.

After completing the level, you enter a bonus stage, you can choose to play 
one of three classic games:
Breakout, Pacman or Space Invaders.
You have the change to get bonus lives, it depends on how good you are
in the bonus game.

During the game, you can press C= Key for Smartbomb.

The game scrolls from right to left but sometimes it scrolls also up and
down! In some narrow places, you should not use the steering, you
better should let you guide through by the game's scrolling.

Note: you must know about the collision-checker of this game.
Nearly the whole upper half of your ship can't collide with anything. But
the bottom half does not like it. If it only touch walls (or shots),
always think of this... in some places you must fly into the background with
the upper ship-half to manage them!



The Extras
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You can tune your ship by collecting those little +e+s. The tuning of the
ship is different in some levels. The +e+ can mean:

-  better front shot;
-  rear shot;
-  satellites;
-  speed up;
-  laser (in some levels);
-  extra smartbomb (C= key);
-  extra life.



Important Infos
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You must turn of a second drive or any other serial devices except your
main drive.

Heat problems... This game has one of the best graphics ever seen. So
it's hard for the VIC... On very old C=64 which was turned on the whole
day already, suddently invisible graphics parts can destroy the ship...
It's not a bug. No problem if you have a newer C64 with new board.



1993  (Markt & Technik)