Knockout. by Diecom Software Inc System Requirements: 64k Coco 2. Or 128/512k Coco 3. Disk Drive. Color Tv or Color Composite Monitor. As this game uses the Artifact color modes used in the earlier model coco's. Loading Instructions: LOADING FROM DISK: Place boot disk in Drive 0 and type LOADM"KNOCK" and press . The game will load, When OK prompt comes back, type 'EXEC' and press . The follow the instructions as prompted by the program. THE OBJECT OF THE GAME: The goal is to become the Boxing World Champion. Once you accomplish this. You must defend your title against all new challenges. GAME CONTROLS: You will be controlling the boxer that is outlined in thick black lines. You see the back of your boxer and will be transparent. So you will see your opponent through him. While your boxer is punching or dodging, You cannot make any other moves. You have to wait until your boxer completes the move he's doing before you can do another move. UP ARROW: Moves your hands to Guard. DOWN ARROW: Releases the hands from Guard to down. LEFT ARROW: Makes your boxer dodge to the left. RIGHT ARROW: Makes your boxer dodge to the right. Z KEY: Makes your boxer punch with his left hand. If your guard is up he will punch to your opponents head. If your guard is down, He will punch to the opponents Body. ?/ KEY: Makes your boxer punch with his right hand. And all moves are the same as the Z KEY moves. SPACE BAR: Your boxer punches with a right hook If you have KNOCKOUT power. Your RIGHT HOOK or KNOCKOUT PUNCH: On the far right of screen is your Knockout punching indicator. Each time you punch your opponent your 'KNOCKOUT' power will increase. Your power is indicated by V's. When you have enough power the 'KO' indicator will start flashing in the Top left of screen. When this is flashing, You can use your powerful 'KO' PUNCH that takes away alot of your opponent's energy if you manage to hit him. PLAYING THE GAME: Near the Left side of the screen there are TWO multi-colored bars with 'DOWN' written between them. The are the energy bars of the boxers. The TOP bhar is your opponents, And the BOTTOM bar is your fighters gauge. The boxer who throws a successful punch will gain a small amount of energy. While the boxer on the receiving end of this punch will lose energy. When a boxer's energy bar disappears will be knocked down. At the top right hand corner of the boxing area the count is displayed. If the count is less then a 10 count, The boxer will get up. and will have gained some of his energy back. If the boxer is knocked down 3 times he will lose the bout. For each fight you will be given a 3 minute round to knockout your opponent. If you don't knock out your opponent with in this time limit your game is 'OVER'. YOUR OPPONENTS: There are 5 different opponents to fight against. each fighter gets harder and harder to knockout. Your opponents will start out punching slowly in the early fight with fair time to react and will increase until they punch fairly quickly giving you very little time to react in. SCORE AND BONUS COUNTER: At the top right on screen is your bonus counter. The counter starts at 30,000 points at the beginning of each fight. It counts down as the time left in each round goes down. If you knockout your opponent then you get the amount left on the Timer added to your score. 140 points for all body hits. 180 points for all head shots. 300 points for all knockout Punches. PAUSE: You can pause the game by pressing 'P'. Restart the game by pressing 'P' again. HIGH SCORE: If you get a high score you can input your name and it will be saved to disk (This feature not supported on all versions).