Big Bob's Drive-In
Release type: Shareware
Release date: 1992
Levels: 5
Author: Sherwood Forest
Registration bonus: Free game or two + current catalog
Registration price: $15
Related games: none
A top-down arcade action game, controlled with the arrow keys and the space bar. Big Bob’s Drive-In has a 1950s diner setting, which rationalizes attacks as food orders and monsters as customers. Otherwise the game stays well within the limits of Game-Maker’s back-of-the-box feature set, and so comes off a bit like Pipemare, except without the polish.
The game is accompanied by a curious, and annoying, constant screeching sound.
Contents
Story
The time, the mid-fifties. The place, Big Bob's Drive-In. The job, feed the customers.
You are Skatin Stacy, the top waitress at Big Bob's Drive-In. It is a busy night here at Big Bob's, and the customers are everywhere.
You have to see that all the people get the food that they want, and make sure to satisfy all the customers. If they get a hold of you, they will take you for a spin that you might not enjoy.
Instructions
The object of the game is to successfully make it through all five screens of the game the screens consist of the drive-in known as Big Bob's as well as the parking lot. You start in the entrance way of Big Bob's, and travel all the way to the flashing star in the parking lot on field five.
You can move Stacy by using the four main arrow keys. You must satisfy the many customers in the drive-in by dropping food in their path to stop them. You can do this by pushing the following keys:
- S: Soda
- F: French fries
- H: Hamburgers
- B: Super burger
Some customers are not too particular what they get, just about anything will be satisfying to them. Some of the customers want some of the food, and not the other. So you must be careful what you give them. also you have a limited supply of all items so be conserevative with your food or you will not have enough to finish the game.
In the last screen (the parking lot, you will be given super burgers, these are the only defense against the cars you must face down as you search for the shining star that lets you win the game.
Good luck, and have fun.
Credits
Big Bob's Drive-In is another fine game from the nut bunch at Sherwood Forest Software.
The current line-up is (as always), Rob Sherwood, Dan Whalen, and the Zoo Crew that tests all these games before we ship them.
