From: Chris.Jeris@launchpad.unc.edu (Chris Jeris)
Subject: DARIUS: Anyone got huge quantities of info?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:32:51 GMT

I've read the section in the Arcade Game Cheat Sheet archive on DARIUS,
and I am doing okay for a beginning player (can usually get through A-Zone
on a life, maybe to the end of B or C on a quarter) but I am curious
about a few things relating to music and powerups.
	- Does anyone have a list of how many powerups of each type are
	available in each Zone?
	- What determines the point value of the silver bubble?  When do
	they appear?
	- After seeing pretty much all the zones A-J I noticed a coupla
	duplications--for instance, C and D, E and J, B and I seem much
	alike; same music, same general scenery.  How many types of music/
	scenery combinations are there, and which Zones do they occur on?
	- Is there any way (probably not) to get the music without playing
	the game?

Also, I have trouble beating some of the battleships, usually because I'm 
clumsy enough that I'm down to basic peashooters by the time I face them.
Here's what I do for each one: how can I improve it?
	- King Fossil: stay waay over at the left end, dodge bullets while
	pumping lead into the mouth.  Usually kills him after about four 
	rounds of his fire.  I die here only when I blunder into a shot.
	- Electric Fan: This guy gives me a lot of trouble.  After some
	thinking I started to just move up close (maybe two inches away)
	and pound him between volleys of blue lasers.  The little ships 
	I let circle around me and bomb them.  I just have trouble 
	coordinating the two objectives "pound the boss" and "don't get 
	smoked."  I used to stay far away and cross up and down rapidly
	to avoid the lasers and bomb the little ships, but it takes too
	long because so few of my shots hit target.  And after those dern
	cubes appear... oh well.
	- Dual Shears: stay at left edge of screen, pound on fire button,
	twitch joystick rapidly up and down to avoid bullets and pray.
	I know it's slower, but I blast the claws off first because I can't 
	deal with the fire from them and still pound the head.  I've
	beaten this guy once and once with help.  I guess I just need to
	be better at dodging, or meet him with better weaponry and shields.
	- Fatty Glutton: ugh.  Any tips?  Those exploding fish seem rather
	unsporting, as do the slightly faster and meaner skull spheres.

Is it just me, or did the designers of DARIUS have a fish fetish?

Anyway, thanks for the bandwidth, and any advice you grant this poor fool
who is enjoying a game for the first time since he discovered BLOCK OUT three
or four years ago.

Chris Jeris	raiden@imsasun.imsa.edu	The Illinois Math & Science Academy
No, I don't play Mortal Kombat, I just needed a better login then "cjeris".
Ignore this message down here, I don't know how to get rid of it quite yet.
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