Mister Spiff IV
Release type: Shareware
Release date: 1994
Levels: 14
Author: Adam Tyner
Related games: Mister Spiff I, Mister Spiff II, Mister Spiff III: Freeze! Mother! Freeze!,
Story
"WHOA!"
You clutch your bag carefully. Public space-transportation isn't as safe as it used to be. Come to think of it, it never really was safe. Anyway, your spaceship broke down on Tizzleplack and you had to catch a bus to get home. At least you still had your...
(CRASH!)
"What the---!!!"
Okay, the bus is flipping around in space. Everyone else has their safety-harness fastened but you. I mean, the light for it came on! Noooo...that online issue of Video Freak was just too good to put down. Well, you fly out the door, still holding your bag of jewels. Lotta good they'll do you if you're-- Hey! You landed on an old mattress! Too bad it was on a bunch of rusty nails. Any landing you can stagger away from is okay, so you start to explore the planet looking for another bus stop. Whoops! It's inhabited by a bunch of mean aliens, surprise surprise. You walk along this path and a purple slobbering beast lunges at you. Without thinking, you tossed a jewel at it. An aura of electricity envelops the alien, stunning it temporarily. Right near it, you see a purple orb which opened a locked door. Off in the distance you see a shop.
"Only one way to get there," you mutter as you enter.
Instructions
Mister Spiff IV!!!!
CONTROLLING YOUR CHARACTER:
Use these keys:
UP: Jump up DOWN: Aim down LEFT: Walk left RIGHT: Walk right UP-LEFT: Jump
up-left
UP-RIGHT: Jump
up-right
ENTER: Attack key G: Fire a hologram
(1 initial use)
H: Heal yourself 1
hit point (1 initial use)
OBSTACLES:
Any blocks with OW! over it means that all blocks like that in that level will automatically kill you. In level 5, look out for blocks tha temporarily vanish over pits of OW! blocks.
LEVEL ONE:
Level one is an introductory level that shows you what to do. In this level, lives will not be deducted.
POWER-UPS:
There are several power-ups in the game. Touch a power-up to pick it up.
- PURPLE ORBS
-Get these to open
doors (doors are marked)
- FLOATING HEADS
-Worth 1 life
- BEATING HEARTS
-Worth 1 hit point
- MONEY
-Worth $1 for the
shops
SHOPS:
You go into a shop after every level. You can only buy 1 item. Move your hand to the item you wish to obtain. You can choose:
- HOLOGRAMS
-Allow you to fire a
hologram once more (press G)
- BEATING HEART
-Allow you to heal
yourself by 1 hit point (press H)
- FLOATING HEAD
-Add one more life
to your collection
- NOTHING!
-Umm...nothing.
JOYSTICK:
- CALIBRATING JOYSTICK
-Press F9
- ENABLING JOYSTICK
-Press F8
UP: Jump up DOWN: Aim down LEFT: Walk left RIGHT: Walk right UP-LEFT: Jump
up-left
UP-RIGHT: Jump
up-right
B1 and B2: Attack! (Healing and holograms must be done on the keyboard.)
ENEMIES:
There are different enemies on each level. Here are the enemies:
- LEVEL ONE:
- Underbite
-A green alien with an
underbite
- Spittle
-A slobbering purple
freak
- Flyball
-A cyclops bat
- LEVEL TWO:
- Blue Streak
-An alien with a jetpack
and an attitude
- Escargot
-A pink, flying snail
- I Can't Believe It's
Not A Background Block!
-Looks like a block,
but turns into an enemy
- LEVEL THREE:
- Helmutt
-Blue dog with a weird
thing on its head
- Silhouette
-Who knows what evil
lurks in the spleens of men...?
- Cyberpunk
-A punk with a flying
disembodied head(?)
- Background Blocker
-Tries to stop you
from jumping
- LEVEL FOUR:
- All of the above +
- Orbert the Friendly Orb
-From Questor, it comes
out of nowhere!
- Rollin' Appleboy
-Umm...rolls.
- LEVEL FIVE:
- Broom boy
-He'll sweep you off
your feet! (Ouch!)
- Wheelie and the Dragster
Bunch
-Dragsters supreme!
- Mister Palette-Swap
- Changes colors...cool.
- LEVEL SIX:
- Mr. Moodswing
-Goes from mad to calm
to stunned to mad to...
- Chuck None
-A martial artist's best
friend, and YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE! HAHAHAHAHA!
- The Rhino Kid
-Uhh...a...rhino kid.
- LEVEL SEVEN:
- Bud the disappearing newt
-He disappears, kind of.
- Mister Splendid
-He's hypnotized, not that
that makes you feel any better
- Carp lord
-A fish ate him. Ow.
- LEVEL EIGHT:
- Fleshwound
-He has a knife in his
head
- Socko the Friendly Sock
-A deadly sock puppet
- Crazy Head Head
-I ain't got no body,
so gimme some candy!
- LEVEL NINE:
- Ernest Cyborgenine
-A MIGHTY mite!
- Lil' Red
-A killer fruit that'll
roll all over you
- Bombshell
-She's dynamite!
- LEVEL TEN:
- Toad-man-with-a-cannon-
for-a-nose-on-the-lad- with no body
-Beats me.
- El Socko
-Tiene un calcetine!
- Gray Guy
-He's gray and I don't
really know how he came about
There are secret levels. You play a Mister Spiff with a digitized head in the land of CGA Hell. Control is the same.
Have fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Adam Tyner
Credits
Mister Spiff IV!
by Adam Tyner
The digitized head on Mister Spiff in CERTAIN levels is of the person Mister Spiff is based on, Alan Caudel!
