DMGD by Donsoft Entertainment

GAME PLAY

Picture this: computers are delicate machines that run on electricity and lunch big numbers. The big numbers you'll be interested in are those obtained from files inside datablocks. Infodumping time here, "Datablocks exists in multiple phygital realities and are chained together so, when you find one, another pops up in the room", an effect we could call "blockchain", but the term was already taken. Let's call them "blackblocks" instead. What? That name is taken too? Ok, whatever: just grab them with your new little rodent hands to grab them, one by one, file by files. We can call it a "Score". Yes! A term nobody uses.

Besides datablocks you´ll find in the rooms something very helpful in your get-me-back-inside-my-head mission: Remember we just said you now have psychic powers? Calm down your gorgonzola, for God's sake! You can... check it out: "Enter in the mind of your enemies and toss them around!" Great, uh? Just concentrate, have a piece of those greenish Psycotagge Alpha-4 and...

Bzzzz!

But be aware! Dangerous creatures roam those tables and crates you can barelly traverse (until now ... It's not our fault your tail keeps bumping into corners). Wait! Shhhh...

NOTE: See that? They look asleep, but be cautious - those datacenter rooms are guarded by elite gen spy cats from MSC - Mewoist Security Central.

USING THE CONTROLLER

Use your Joystick Controller with this ATARI(R) Game Program(TM) cartridge. Be sure the controller cables are firmly plugged into the jacks at the back of your ATARI 2600(TM) Video Computer system(TM) game. Hold the Joystick with the red button to your upper left, yes, toward the monitor/tv/holodisplay screen. Use the LEFT CONTROLLER jack for this one-player game.

You can move up, down, left, right, and maybe diagonally (ouch!) in the same direction you move your stick. Do not mess around: aim for those datablocks and avoid even eye contact with those damn cats. They are very, very fast, hungry or both. Remember Tom and Jerry? So, they're are not Tom. You are not Jerry. If you can't evade them, use your mindcontrolpower to teach them a lesson on Physics! Press the red button, move and shove them on tha farthest wall!

CONSOLE CONTROLS

GAME SELECT SWITCH

Press the GAME SELECT switch to select a game variation. There is none.

GAME RESET SWITCH

Press the GAME RESET switch to restart the mission. Read my mind: Each time GAME RESET is pressed, the game starts over and the current "Score" is deleted. You'll have to suffer all those mozzarella madness all again...

DIFFICULTY SWITCHES

Do nothing. Believe this: being a rat/mouse/capybara/rabitt/whatever is already very difficult. Move around wiggling a tail is dreadfull. But will become better each new room!

TV TYPE SWITCH

BW Televisions? Seriously? Even Tom and Jerry were Technicolor! Oh my Brie!

SCORING

Eating up Psycottages gives you 5 pts and 20 mindpower energy. For each datablock you get, the computer adds 10 pts to your "Score". Each new room accessed will give more 100 pts. Going around four rooms? Another 1000 pts for the computer! With 999999 pts we guarantee to put you back inside a human shape you like, agent.

PENALTY

That's only one thing you can't fromage: death. Avoid the cats, please.

HELPFUL HINTS

The following tips can help in your fight against the enemy forces, which still don't have a name (I guess they are the rioietis, not sure), but maybe will as the adventure continues. Stay turned for more puns!

• Use the ambient in your advantage. Cats can jump obstacles to get you, but there are some places they cannot enter to get you: look at the walls. Look!
• The operation is a datablocks retrieval one, not a cheese retrieval one. The later the rooms, the more points goes to your "Score" and sooner you'll be human again. (Wink-wink!)
• Buuuuuuut... Going around without mindcontrol powers could be very dangerous! Do not hesitate to fulfill your mindcontrolpowerbar.
• Maybe there is some logic in the datablocks pop-up pattern... Hmmm... Interesting, indeed...
• Sometimes, just sometimes, stop and hope the cat will look another way.

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