How to play Words-Attack online
- Move your ship: left and right arrow keys
- Fire: Space bar
- Start a game: F12 (the consoleās Reset switch)
- Game options: F11 (the consoleās Select switch). No manual is known, so what each option does has not been documented.
Gameplay
Your ship sits at the bottom of the screen, and three invaders attack from the top. Between you and them, rows of letters alternate with rows of objects such as fruit, hearts and small creatures. Shoot a letter and it drops into the strip below your ship, so you gradually build up a row of letters. Be careful what you hit: shooting one of the objects, or being hit by an enemy shot, costs you a life and removes a letter from your row.
With no manual to go by, how a finished word is scored is not known. Collectors who studied the program found more than 1 KB of unused space, enough for a proper list of words, so the game may never have been fully finished. A Home Vision logo was also found inside the program, which suggests another company originally made it.
