FULL THROTTLE (TM) DEMO (c) 1995 LucasArts Entertainment Company. All Rights Reserved. TO START To play Full Throttle simply select it from the "Archive" demo menu. OVERVIEW OF THE DEMO This demo consists of three interactive segments, each representing an area and style of gameplay from FULL THROTTLE. In all three segments, you control Ben, leader of the Polecats. The controls for each section are not all the same, but you'll always be steering Ben through different environments, using him to find clues, and helping him fight his way past obstacles. THE KICKSTAND Ben's been tricked, knocked out, and thrown out with the garbage. This makes him mad. He needs to catch up with his gang, but someone's taken the keys to his bike. Help Ben make someone pay for this. First, get Ben out of the dumpster. He'll punch the dumpster wherever you point the cursor and click, so just hit the right place and he'll pop out. Now, walk Ben around. Just point and click on the ground and watch him go. Look at the cursor. When it's over an interesting object, it either goes "hot" (framed by red brackets) or becomes an arrow. The arrows indicate exits. Click with an arrow, and Ben will walk that way and enter another area. (Double-click with an arrow, and Ben will jump to the new area immediately!) When the cursor is "hot," (for example, when the cursor is over the dumpster) click and HOLD DOWN the mouse button. Yikes! What is that thing!? It's a flaming tattoo! It's covered with icons. These icons represent actions Ben can take on the object you clicked on (the dumpster). While the tattoo is on the screen, slide the cursor over the boot and let go. Ben should kick the dumpster. Bring up the tattoo again, slide the cursor over the eyes, and let go. Ben should examine the dumpster. Next, try the hand and the mouth. This is how Ben interacts with his environment. Try different actions on different objects and see if you can make something interesting happen. Use your fists on the front door of the bar. Talk to the bartender (use the mouth.) Kick the piano. Try it all, until you find Ben's keys. THE BIKER ROAD DUEL This part is totally different from that last part. Forget about that part. Now you're on the road--The Old Mine road! There are no cops here, no rules--just bikers. Bikers who are looking for trouble. Swerve left or right with the mouse. Select a weapon (Ben's fist or his tire iron) by clicking the right mouse button. Use the weapon by clicking the left mouse button. If at first you don't succeed--punch, punch again. THE CAVEFISH HIDEOUT The Cavefish are a nasty, antisocial, cult-like gang who live in a secret cave off the Old Mine Road. Living underground all their lives, the Cavefish are very sensitive to sunlight, and wear special opaque goggles that help them navigate the road using the bumps on the center line. Ben would normally steer clear of them, but they have something he wants--a ramp. He needs a ramp to jump Poyahoga gorge, and since they stole it from Ricky Myran, Ben feels justified in stealing it back. When you're off your bike, this area works the same way the Kickstand area does. You get the flaming tattoo interface and all that. But, when you're ON your bike, you only control WHERE Ben drives. When the cursor passes over something Ben can drive to, you'll see a big yellow road sign. Click the mouse when you see the road sign, and Ben will ride off! Click anywhere else on the screen, and Ben gets off his bike and walks. Walking's pretty lame, I know, but sometimes you gotta do it. FULL THROTTLE KEY COMMANDS W Walk to K Kick P Pick up/Punch E Examine I Inventory T Talk to + Speed up text display - Slow down text display ] Increase voice volume [ Reduce voice volume ' Increase sound effects volume ; Reduce sound effects volume Esc: Escape cut scenes Space bar: Pause game CTRL-T: Toggles text display on and off CTRL-C, Alt-X or Alt-Q: Quit to DOS NOTE: Pressing keys other than the ones indicated above may cause your the demo to lock up. Performance Issues The Full Throttle Demo contains a preview of an exciting new addition to this genre of game in the Biker Road Duel section. Unfortunately, this part of the demo may appear somewhat slow on older computers that do not have accelerated video hardware (a VL or PCI Local Bus video card). Joystick Control There is currently NO support for joystick control in the demo. Please use your mouse to control Ben. Boot Disk The Full Throttle Demo runs in Protect Mode. Most computers with 8MB of RAM will NOT be able to run the demo immediately after exiting Microsoft Windows or with Windows-optimized startup files. If you encounter any problems runnung the demo, please make a boot disk. You can make a boot disk by selecting the Make Boot Disk option from the Main menu on the Archive demo CD-ROM. Or by typing "bootdisk" from the root directory of your CD-ROM. Additional information may be found by refering to the Reference Manual. Sound Issues ADVANCED GRAVIS ULTRASOUND/MAX/ACE: In order for our native Ultrasound driver to work properly, SBOS must not be loaded in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. CRYSTALIZER PLUG AND PLAY: iMUSE, our sound configuration utility, will detect this card as a Sound Blaster Pro. It will not work properly with this driver, therefore you must choose the Sound Blaster or Sound Blaster 2.0 diver from the custom setup menu. MEDIACHIPS MAD16: iMUSE, our sound configuration utility, will detect this card as a Sound Blaster Pro. It will not work properly with this driver, therefore you must choose the Sound Blaster or Sound Blaster 2.0 driver from the custom setup menu. Full Throttle TM and copyright LucasArts Entertainment Company. All Rights Reserved. Used Under Authorization. The LucasArts logo is a registered trademark of LucasArts Entertainment Company.