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This
is a water-born version of Pole Position, with
speedboats instead of cars and a lake in place of the
racetrack.
You
have to guide your boat around 20 courses, firstly in
a qualifying round and then in a main round, beating
a set time on each run in order to continue. The courses
are marked out by a series of poles, occasionally marked
with a direction arrow to indicate the curve of the
bend ahead.
Other
boats are also on the course and will do their best
to get in your way and cause you to crash or force you
into the poles or off the course.
Your
boat has two gears and a top speed of 110. You accelerate
by pushing the joystick forward and decelerate by pulling
back. The fire button changes the gear.
The
cannon fires at the start of the race.
Once
on the course, your boat responds very sharply to left
and right movements and this will take a while to get
used to. The corners provide the biggest hazard and
you will have to hug the edge of the course to avoid
the oncoming traffic.
The
20 courses increase in difficulty, getting narrower
and more twisty as you progress. You can practice on
any of the routes without other boats to hinder you
or let the game go into demo mode where it crashes frequently.
The
sound is just the roar of the engine and a crash when
you sink. The other boats are the same as yours and
the far horizon shows a shoreline which moves left and
right as you do.
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