WELCOME TO MEGARACE! Hey, you! That's right, YOU! Have you ever wished you could inject some real excitement into your life? Sure you have! Well, you're about to find out how you can do just that, as we at VWBT take you on an exclusive tour of the most exciting Virtual Television Show ever! In this preview you'll meet Lance Boyle, all-round good guy and MegaHost of this wonderful show of the future. Together you'll experience an introduction to one of the specially constructed Virtual Speedways, and hear about the vicious punk speedgang that rules the road. On top of that, we'll even let you climb into the MegaRace Virtuality Suit and burn rubber in one of our exotic Enforcement Vehicles! Now who said the television companies of the future aren't generous? All you need to do is install the demo (we'll tell you how in a minute), sit back and enjoy the guided tour, and then get psyched up big-time before daring to step into one of the driving machines of the future. Then the fun really starts! You've gotta race like the wind to catch the slimeballs who dominate the highway, then shoot, ram, shunt and crash them until they disappear into a cloud of supercharged explosive vapour! We've only got time to give you a short (but exciting!) preview of this wonderful Virtual Experience, but hey, you wouldn't want us to give the whole show away now would you? The good news is you can get the whole driving-by-the-seat-of-your-pants extravaganza at your local computer software retailer, featuring 16 virtual racetracks, 8 supercharged enforcement vehicles, a multitude of hot soundtracks, and over 20 minutes of commentary from the inimitable Lance Boyle! MegaRace - it's a whole lot better than real baby, it's Virtual Television - reality's worst nightmare! INSTALLING THE DEMO To install MegaRace on your hard drive: 1. Turn on your PC and your CD-ROM drive. 2. Put the disc in your CD-ROM drive (usually D: ) label side up. 3. Type the command that logs to your drive. For example, type D: and press Enter. 4. Type INSTALL and press Enter. 5. Follow the on screen instructions to finish the install. RUNNING THE PROGRAM To run MegaRace from your C: drive: 1. Type CD \MEGARACE and press Enter. 2. Type MEGARACE and press Enter. STARTING THE RACE After the introduction sequences you'll see the options screen, showing 1 car, 7 empty car slots, and three large coloured buttons at the base of the screen. You move between the car and the buttons with the cursor keys. With the car highlighted, press the SPACE bar to see your car's specifications, and press RETURN to start the race. View the other options by highlighting the buttons and pressing RETURN - try them and see what happens! GAME CONTROLS Keyboard: A Accelerate Z Brake . Steer right , Steer left Spacebar Fire weapon P Pause/Unpause Esc Skip animation Ctrl-Q Abort Race Mouse: Any button Fire weapon Drag forward Accelerate Drag left Turn car left Drag right Turn car right Drag back Brake Joystick: Forward left Accelerator on and left turn Forward centre Accelerator on Forward right Accelerator on and right turn Left Accelerator off and left turn Centre Accelerator off Right Accelerator off and right turn Back left Brake on and left turn Back centre Brake on Back right Brake on and right turn Note: Release of the accelerator gradually slows the car. When racing you'll see various symbols on the track surface. Running over these has an effect on your car's performance. Some are good, some are bad, but you're gonna have to find out the hard way! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The story, all names, characters and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons, places, buildings and products is intended or should be inferred. Copyright c 1994 The Software Toolworks, Inc. Copyright c 1994 Cryo Interactive Entertainment. All rights reserved. IBM is registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.