Automania (Manic Mechanic) (MSX)

Help Wally Week in this platform adventure to assemble various cars along the assembly line and be able to aspire to his desired salary increase.

You as Wally Week have ten cars tobuild, each consisting of 6 parts. You will begin in the store area with tyres bouncing around to hit you. You must go to the stock room, identify the parts required, and go up the ladders to each level to collect them (moving over the part will collect it). The gangplanks are none too safe and you must jump the gaps to reach the relevant parts. There are various items strewn on the floors. These appear in different places on each screen, so the game is a constant challenge.

You will then return to the assembly area to place the parts in their correct position on the car, but to deposit the upper parts of the car (e.g. windscreen, roof, etc.) you will have to jump when in the correct position.

CONTROLS

• To move Wally: Joystick or Cursors (Left & Right, to move to; Up & Down, to climbing or going down the stairs).
• Jump: Fire button or space bar.
• ESC key: abort the game.

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

an MSX­1 with 64 kB of RAM memory or an emulator.

ABOUT THIS VERSION

This version is the final version of the game submitted in the MSXdev22 contest. It has some improvements compared to that first version:

• Reduced the difficulty of the game so that it is not frustrating to play (detection of collisions with enemies).
• Music in the menu, credits and during the game, both for MSX-1 and MSX-2 (play more than one channel).
• Variation of the background of the screen (colors, bricks) in some stages.