HL AWNMOWERMAN”* i“Thank you for purchasing The Lawnmower Man from T#H Sofware {or yur Super Nintendo Eresinment Sytem. For moimum eroy- ment, please read this Insinicton Maria thoroughly befare play, WARNING: PLEASE READ THE ENCLOSED CONSUMER INFORMATION AND PRECAUTIONS BOOKLET CAREFULLY BEFORE USING YOUR NINTENDO" HARDWARE SYSTEM OF GAME PAK. CREDITS ‘Game Design and Coding: simon Pick Graphics: Rob Whitaker 30 Graphics: Ned Langman ] Music and Sound Effect: Asta Bimbe ; Backing Track: REAL Producer: iv tous Executive Producers: Rob Henderson, Jane Cavanagh The Lawnmower Man —The Story Contos. Level 1 Suburbia, Level 2: The Cyber Run. Level 3: VSI WaPeHOUS€ wane Level 4: Cyberiobe. Level 5: Post Apocalypse Suburbia Level 6: Cyber Tub.. : Level 7 The Shop enna oe Level 8: Doompayet. nem eee High core Name Entry... ene 2% Limited Warrant 24By the turn ofthe millennium a technelogy knawn as Viral Realty wll Dein widespread use, itwill alow you to enter computer-generated artical worlds as unlimited asthe imagination ite Its creators fore See milfons of positives uses - while others fear It as @ new form of mind conto. VSI PROJECT 5 — DR. LAWRENCE ANGELO’S JOURNAL My rame is Dr Lawrence Angelo. ama scientist. forthe lt few yeors 1 hove been experiementing with vital reaiy. Wh its possbities.. ts li ition. My wark is tunded by a government organization known 0s The Shop. fs interest go beyond the peace aren 've been looking ito. They want to develop the darker side of Vitual Realy, the mitery poss. tes Uni rcenty | worked with animals, chimpanzees, The most encouraging ‘results 50 far were achieved with Rosco 1138, Ro%co's mental capacity wa: enhanced by Virtual Realy Treatment, inereosrg by thcusands of mes thot ofan ordinary chimpanzee. He hecame an inteligent crimal He ‘eal solve puree. ploy — ana win ot — games. is mind wax strengthened, trained by Vitwol Reolty for enployrent i Dattlefeld environments which were too tugh for hurnon solders. Jobe was just 9 gardener then. Everyone ‘alleé em “The Lowrmewer Mon.” He was a simpleton, he had the mind ofa Pld, ald fim (ad games which (oud make him sorter. He loved {games and jumped atthe chance.Co) ST Co) Wie worked together, starting with simple _games designed to stimulate the hurran ‘mind. He responded beter than | had ‘ever expected he would. His brain ‘actvey increased by 400% in less hana month When | had done aI could ot home | took him to The Shop, the government vision of Virtual Space Industries. With the stote ofthe art equipmertat the VSI compet | took the experimentation to lit | had never though possible \Voriy had kre that The Shop hod iis own interests in Project $. Hon. They wore programming him with thei own Virtual Realty Treatment. While I wee turning a simpleton inte @ tmart man, they wore turning hr into @ military Imachine. An aggresive force copa. ble of toking on am crm. Inevitobly ial went homby wrong Jobe achieved levels of inteligence ‘greater thon any ving thing on Earth He spent more and more tie io Virtual Realty, where he wa: the mater cf his world. from here, he swove that he would etcape through the telephone networks and tobe contr of every Computer terminal the wert, [Now he's cut of contrl. Nobody can stop him, rot even The Shop. My ‘nly help i Carlo. She’s been o close fend and confidant for longer than {can remember. she’s the only perion who stood by me. Our only chant now sto break into the VSI complex and reach him belore he escapes his Virtual Realty demain and reoches the networks Insert your “The Lawnmower Man” game pak into your Super NES and turn the power ent wil automatically go into “Demo Mode”, showing ightizec images from the move and short sequences from the game. \When you wish to start playing press START. A selection screen will now ‘come up ghving yeu the option to choose between playing DR. ANGELO ‘CARLA, Press SELECT to move the cursor from one digitized image to the other. When you have chosen who you wish to play press START ‘when the cursor son that character, ‘A second player wishing to join should press START. second pa of ct zed mages wl come up Go trough the sre procedure as Payer One to select your character You can change your selection belore the other player makes his or her selection by presting any button Lert Walk et RIGHT Walk ight, Down crouch y Fire. Held down the button for auto fre. X+6 Jump. The player can jump onto objects anc platforms. To [ump dann from them press X oF B and DOWN, R&lork Bi stream weapon. Hold down the button until a gliterng eect appears and is absorbed by the player ‘Then release the button and the bt stream weapon wil fie START Press START to join game oifalready playing the START button wil pause the game. The second player «an jon the game at any point during the" Suburbia" level enly by pressing START on the second player's Control PackMAIN GAME CONTROLS VIRTUAL REALITY LEVELS ur STEER LEFT RIGHT STEER RIGHT up sTeeR UP Down STEER DOWN, y FRE ‘Access to these Virtual Worlds is achieved by entering the various por- tals stusted throughout the realty levels. You are not armed. Here, the purpose of the game 5 to successfull ster your way Uwough a series of obstacles and successfully reach the ext, ‘You love a fife if you crash and gain a bonus life if you it the EXIT sign In ‘the Virtual Werlds at the end of each level (Cyber Fun, Cyber Tube, Cyber Wan you are armed. (00000000) vs scot Score ons PLAYER 1 PLAYER 2 MAIN GAME AREA, (00000000 TRNAS OASTROKED VIDEO DISPLAY rece ey Ma eNeO TONCAME PORTAL iMORUEAION®©©® commons swncis ncaa noun cca orice BING sie ou sage ae aes an sexrrenc ova ssc Auer Homes and as OO O® SCORE MULTIPLIER i gine aye aed by the nmi andthe SU Bete Bein add tb the itl sone te umber sneered by calectng ees wera. COMPACT Disks nen Dae Eni Lee TH de ey the se ofthe secre Breen son Becomes uranate th erimerphe ites ial ber Suk When ‘eng the Ural Cyber St yar can si icin mere Nis bela you lose aie ‘TWO PLAYER GAME ‘The Lawnmower Man ha simultaneous two player option. Angela's ‘weapons will not harm Carla and vice versa. F you are bath waking in the tame direction the lagging player wil catch up. Ifa player leaves the boitom ofthe sceen, leaving the other payer behind he or se wil automatically disappear and reappear next to his or her partner without losing ate, LOSING LIVES AND VIRTUAL CYBER SUITS men you lose ate you explode and disintegrate. I you have any ves lett you wil emateriaize from the top left if you are blue and the top Fight fyou are red, hen you gain a Virtual Cyber Suit you wil lash, ‘When you lose a Vrwal Cyber Sult you will demateraize and reform, CREDIT SYSTEM Each player stats with twos lives, When these are loit the player may Continue f he or she has ayy remaining crecits‘Starting at Dr Angelo’s house you make your way through suburbia Jobe has steady entered Virtual Realty, an is using his own control panel to ltect everything under his influence — both real people and ‘manifestations of Vitual Reality — against you. Towards the end of Subutia you must hijack « helcapter to cross a broken bridge. In a {wo player gare both players must enter the helicopter. The fist play- ce on board can use his or her control pad to fly the helicopter. To access the helicopter stand in front of the cockpit and press UP. Be ‘careful not to rash land as yeu wil lose a life VIRTUAL WORLDS “There are four Virtual Realty portals (See Fig. 1) to be found through: ‘ut the level. each situated at 3 point where you can get ro further Inveaiity. The onty way Uccugh is by entering Virtual Reality and suc- cessful lying through tothe exit en portal on the other side ofthe obstacle, CYBER WAR Certain Virtual Reality sections are Cyber War sections. You rus ight your nay through the nightmare ofa Virtual Wend at war. ‘The ravaged landscape is populated by hostile batle chimps manning ‘every stronghols they can find. Battle your way across ths wastelana to reach the portal back into the real world. Press ¥ to fre your weapon ‘The indicator on the lft shows your health status. Unite the virtual worlds curing the reality leves, i you strike an obstacle or are hit by an fenomy here you will Ios health bust wil stay in the virtual wot. ‘The indicator onthe ight adds a ‘chimp’ kom everytime you destioy another enemy. This incator wil ash when you heve destroyed all ‘of the chimps at this emplacement and are about to move on to the next Fauee to complete a Virtual World returns yeu to Reality ancl you also lose a ite COMPUTER TERMINALS Thove are ten computer terminals hidden threughout the game. t decoded these wil supply exta power-ups. Ta log on to the tr ‘minal press UP on your Control Pad wien staring infront of them. An 10 test wil then come tp Gee Fig, 2). Match one ofthe shapes on the bottom row to one: ‘of the enes on the top before the timer runs out to complete the test nd destroy the terminal. There are PIG-2 five tests per terminal. Every terminal must be destroyed to complete the game fully. AA he end of the level you will come across Harley's Gas “Er Up, Here everything, including the petrol pumps, is under jobe's contro. Once. strayed a Virtual Realty portal wil appear. Enter this to reach the ext section: The Cyber Run. Enter the Cyber Aun y jumping into the portalIn the Cyber Run you will find yourselt traveling at high speed through a ‘avernous Virtual World. Your tsk ic {to avoid the obstacles which ‘appear in your path and combat the Viwal Enemies now as Battle Chimps - See Fig. 3) which attack you, There ae turbo rings (See Fig. 4) placed throughout the chamber Fly though these to double nc? your speed, At the end of the chamber {you will see a red hexagon set ia the wall Head for this and shoot 10 open it You may colide ‘twelve times Detore you are ‘expeed from the Vetual Works and lse aie. ‘Star the level at the beginning of a huge warehoute owned by VS. Your tases to make your way around a set of moving platforms while dodging fire from the guard and other more dangerous encenies, “Thete ae four more Virtua Reality Portals and more computer te- nals which must be destroyed. You wil ao come across the Spider Walker (ce Fig. 5). An elevator allows you access to the roof ofthe building. Once here you will find yourself under attack rom a hel- copter. Back inside the building, make your way tothe far ide of the ‘warehouse where you wil find the Cyber Sphere room. Enter the (Cyber Sphere and prepare to confront Jobe. To do this stand under: ‘neath the Cyber-Sphere and press UP. Each platform has a “win. These ‘win pletion can be identified by their identical symbols. They wil ahvays move in relation to eachother. Platforms are moved by standing on them and pressing the Control Pad inthe desired direction. Each platform has only one direction. It you cannot progres through the game due to a misplaced platform, Feturn tothe ‘twin’ platform and move itt its opposite poston. \When standing ona platform, hold down 8 to move your character ‘without moving the platform, The Vl wrens is pdpped wih SRR, toric temo prevent jury trom ng tae a ply jumps oF hgh pater aed false wi ‘niortcaly donde pod rematerale onthe ator againwituctosng aieThisis@ simultaneous two player Virual section. Jobe is protecting his “Jobe sucked us into a revolution...nnsn Every piece of data that only means of escape far the VSI computer nto the computer ret governed life in our computerized wid was gone. work — seven hexagonal potas, These ae colored green and reed Nations fel, Borders changed. Fora white it was total anerchy. But "Access Granted” when you ative in Jobe's work. jobe wil attack you those who have aways been in poner ae finding ways to control with fireballs, lasers and a number of other weapons, using mere things again. Might making right one way of another. {against you ashe is defeated and more of the hexagons are cuanged. * sounwsAMte crashing the global DataNet, Jobe disappeared. You must blast your way pas obe seven times to fy through tye hex (os see eee ea tees hte ne ‘gons and change them to red “Access Denied” portals. The cursor Calor when descending shows the player in contol. Steer the cursor ‘vera green porta to turn it re, | ‘Virtual Realty had become a battle ground. Virtual Gladiators fought it ut in woris where there were no limits. One man contlied it alls sssnn The Docmplayer! Ha was a rechse, He lived and operated . When he's defeated obe nevertheless | irom the new mantestation of The Shop. ID ps, eshing out through the lost . - potaljtesieduy chengerto | 70 ##C out themes created ha to ack no Hs world and Sop / \ “Access Denied”. ish fag. eee A crea. “The fist ime I tied | failed to find the Doomplayer, Instead | found 3 y Anaseseainal rvs yeas ghost in the machine.....Jobe, imprisoned by the Doomelayer even plore Gat Sree | ashe tought he had become the ruler of the world. He'd become a | “Up uni now he'd worked fer inside Vitwa Reality aginst me: Now and now he vavels evenwhere with me. helping me.” “ERASE! ERASE! ERASE!” (Vien ik aa eee |PHSB S YZ BT ea ce Uitte U3) LEVEL SIX: CYBER TUBE Here you have a choice between crving Angelos souped up car — 2 1865 Pontiac GTO, ora motaebite. Choose the machine you want to drive by positioning yoursef beside it ant pressing UP. Having choen Your vehicle, drive across Suburbia to The Shop. Security guards from ‘The Shop do all they can to dive you off the toad. There are missles which you can pick up. When you dive through these they wil bbecome atteched tothe side of your cat. Fire the missles by pressing 6. Ifyou collect a missle pick-up when you alady have one attached to {your vehicle the first mstiles wil fire automaticaly, There ae aso turbo pick-ups. Drive through these and you will double your speed fra lim ited period of tine. CONTROLS LT SLOWDOWN RIGHT SPEEDUP up STEERLEFT DOWN —STEERRIGHT y Fine R BIT STREAM WEAPON 8 FRE WASSILES To collect pick-ups drive into them. A “Turbo” becst (See Fig. 6) will dou ble your speed as soon as you touch it. A missle pickup (See Fg. 6) wil attach tse to the sides ‘of your vette until you press 8 — Unless you alreedy have misses attached, in which case the new picks ps will be fied immediatly In order to enter the Shop, you must reach the control center and de~ activate the security lock. To do this you must travel down the Cyber Tube, 9 Virtual Realty Data Port. Enemics ond obstacles must be shot or avoided, You can rotate the entire screen to travel around the edge of the tube, There area number of different cbstaces Data Rings (See Fi. 7, steer to pass Uhrough the gap in these. The Virwal Causeway (See Fig, 8) Steer clear ofthe sides ofthis, striking them wil decrease your nergy. 16.7 Occasionally you wil lave the por and travel Uirough deta space. Cventvoly several red hexagons appear towards the end of the port and grow to meet you. Shoot these to 6estroy ther and passthrough The green hexagon you then come actoss i the end of the port. 16.8This appears to be a nosal office building at fist glance. A large entrance hall with plush seating and pictures hung on the wall. You move past offices, shooting guards and various enemies, You must play an extended Virtual World to get tothe top. ‘There are a number of enemies on this level Psychic furniture ses from the fle and fs at you, Webs. Misty webs float towards you and must be shat several times before being destroyed. There are also four more Virtua Reality Portals and the last Few computer ter minal to be destroyes A vending machine. This shoots cans at Angelo and Cara You enter the Deomplayers VR ‘Chamber, from which he deminates his Viewal Vion, As you enter he ‘eet you and eicapes into his Virtual Weld, Follow him into Viral Realty, Free floating in Virual Reality you must bist the Doompiayer no oblivion. Virual meteors (See Fig, 9) spin through the battle round as you fight Blast these and they wall release pick-ups. There are also Viewal weapons (See Fg. 10) among the meteors. Collect them te change your weapon, but bewarel Some are not as pawertl as others All weapons have a imited number of shots. Collecting a weapon which you ‘lead have ads 10 the number of remaining shots. A shield is also availabe,WATCH OUT FOR THE SEQUEL TO THE LAWNMOWER MAN. 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