Bubble Gum

The game is called the Bubble Gum by the name of the balls that are the characters in the game. In the plural - because there are eight of them. When one dies, another begins to pass the picture again. In total, eight lives. The game was written under DOS at 386, therefore, on more sophisticated graphics it works too fast. There is no source left, so I don’t know yet how to make it slower.

RULES OF THE GAME:
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It is necessary to go through 10 labyrinths, and at the end of the tenth take a magic ring, for the sake of which everything, in fact, began. (Who cares about the legend, you can translate the English rhyme at the beginning of the game - however, it is with errors). The number of the current labyrinth is marked below with the marker "Rooms:"

In order to pass the picture, you need to collect all the bags of gold. Then the exit (door) opens, which you need to get to - and you are in the next picture. The amount of remaining gold is marked below with a "Gold:"

The peculiarity of the ball is that with the help of picks it can chop the floor underneath.

You can chop: brick walls, wooden floors, clouds.

You can’t chop: stone walls, stairs, carpets, planes (if you don’t write anything, you also can’t chop).

One pickaxe can be chopped once, their number is marked below with the marker "Breakers:"

Chopping is done with the space key.

Features of the stairs: the ball cannot climb the stairs to the top, also, if there are no stairs under it, it will fall down.

You can walk through the clouds if you collect two magic shoes: left and right. They appear in the bag on the right. Attention! Then you can fall through the cloud only if you cut it!

Dangers and how to deal with them:

Skeletons - you can collect pistols, each of which gives ten shots. They can kill skeletons. Shots pass through everything except the walls. Keys: z - left, m - right. If it does not work, you can try switching registers like CAPS LOCK or changing languages. The number of remaining shots is indicated at the bottom by the "Flashes:" marker.

Lights (torches) - you can collect buckets, each of which allows you to go through the fire once. The number of buckets is indicated at the bottom with the "Buckets:" marker.

Water - you can walk on it if you take scuba gear. He appears in the bag (right).

The bag (scuba gear and shoes) is cleaned in a new picture, everything else remains with you in the same amount. It is better to save and not waste anything in vain. Although there are scattered much more resources than you need to go through.

Additional keys:

1 - start the picture again (spend one life)
Esc - exit the game
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Bubble Gum (c) Alex, Hackersoft, Barnaul, 1997
Idea, labyrinth development, programming: Alex Hacker
Graphics: Roman V +
Software: Borland Turbo Pascal 6.0, 7.0
Sponsorship (provision of computers), as well as information support: school No. 101, represented by Shelepova Natalia Ivanovna
Special thanks: to the director of school No. 101 Morozov Alexei Vasilyevich for finding a whole class of Intel-386 computers, which at that time were very, very cool.

Greetings to members of the then-existing Hackersoft: to Woland and to Demon campaign.