Computer + Video Games - Commodore Is Awesome

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o winter, and it's most prob-
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just about to pour with rain.
abut
imagine yourself in California
yon
a sun-kissed day. It's hot. Re-
. eeeeal hot. To cool off, you and
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your buddy Bif each grab a sixpack
of Cokes, inflate a couple
k
of giant inner "toobs", iump in
a
the creek and prepare to let
yyour
troubles float away...
! But as you doze off down-
I stream. you start to dream that
kthe
creek has become a wide,
nwide
river. Suddenly, off to the
oright,
a tree plunges into the
w water and floats in your direc-
ition!
If it punctures the toob it'll
t
be certain glugsville! In desperation
you hurl one of your coke
s
cans towards it and, amazingly. it
goes straight to the bottom! But
before you have time to get
cocky. some more formidable
foes appear further down the
bank.,,
Fishermen cast their deadly
I" Dodge the snakes, Elif
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hooks at you, and you have to
use your hands and feet to frantically
paddle your toob away
from rocks, sharp branches in
the water and nasty toob-eating
snakes.
The only way you and Bif can
ever wake up from this nightmare
Is to toob it all the way to
the end of the river - and that
means running the gauntlet of a
daunting array of hazards. Every
so often the river forks - with
each separate tributary leading
to another world. In Hillbilly
land. blunderbuss-packing bumpkins
are after our buoyant boys.
Hell is full of such nightmarish
creatures as skulls, knife murderers
and pyramids with eyes
Even worse is The City (all concrete.
nasty punks and pollution),
and then there's The
Jungle and Ice World which are
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