How to play Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes online
- Fly the Tomato Sprayer: arrow keys (all directions)
- Shoot, capture a brick, drop a brick: Space bar
- Choose a play level (1–8): F11 (the console’s Select switch)
- Start a new game: F12 (the console’s Reset switch)
- Number of sprayers: F4 (left difficulty: A = four sprayers, B = unlimited)
- Tomato speed: F9 (right difficulty: A = fast, B = slow)
Gameplay
The tomato plants grow at the bottom of the screen, and your job is to build three walls above them. Bricks slide across the top of the screen. Shoot one to capture it (your sprayer takes on its colour), then aim at a gap in a wall and fire again to drop it in. Each wall takes only one colour: green for the bottom wall, pink for the middle and gold for the top. You can place a brick from above or below, but not sideways, and a brick cannot pass through a wall, so to fill the lower walls you have to fly through the gaps in the upper ones. If you miss, the brick is lost.
You lose a sprayer if you touch a roving beefsteak tomato, a tomato bomb or a plant. On the higher levels, cherry tomatoes bomb you from the top of the screen, and brick-eating plants sprout on your walls. The tomato bombs turn green as a warning while a brick-eater is growing. Let it reach full height and it takes a brick with it.
| Action | Points |
|---|---|
| Beefsteak tomato | 5 |
| Cherry tomato | 50 |
| Brick-eater | 5 |
| Capturing a brick | 10 |
| Placing a brick | 20 |
| First / second / third wall completed | 1,000 / 2,000 / 3,000 |
Play levels
The game starts on level 6 unless you pick another. Level 1 has only firing plants. Level 2 adds the beefsteak tomatoes, level 3 the cherry tomatoes and level 4 the brick-eaters. Levels 5 and 6 get harder with each round, and levels 7 and 8 also make the bombs wider. After you finish all three walls, a new round starts on the same level.
Tips
- Tap for bricks, hold for tomatoes. One shot captures a brick and the next one releases it, so tap carefully while carrying a brick. When you just want to clear tomatoes, holding the button down works better.
- Keep your distance. Bricks are easier to catch when you are not right at the top of the screen.
- Know where brick-eaters grow. They always appear on the wall with the most bricks, and on the upper wall if two are tied.
