The Story

Forgetting the vows he made to her late girlfriend after 
so many perils and worries, Ferdinand W. Templeton found 
the true love among the (eight) arms of an affectionate 
octopus. The problem is that such octopus was not so 
up to it because, though affectionate, he wasn’t very 
fond of true, real, deep and serious relationships 
(that’s what always happens if you mess with octopuses!). 
So when Ferdinand walked towards him, completely decided 
to really “use their relationship”, the octopus hit 
the famous archaeologist with a blasting Chuck Norris-style 
roundhouse kick, sending him and his bits so far away 
and making him lose his treasured artifacts once again 
(remember: The Mask of Chichonitzá, The Jewel of Ebro, 
the Sacred Scroll of Ahamaramu IV and the Pitimini Flower 
XIX). They were spread accross the bottom of the sea again, 
this time next to a sunken ship, once owned by the legendary 
spanish pirate Tatoo IV.

We know that Ferdinand is a though pig-headed guy, so he’ll 
try once again to retrieve his treasures… And gain the 
octopus’ love.


The Game

You have to search for the 4 artifacts scattered around 
the bottom of the sea. Once you have everything, carry 
them to your boat. That’s your goal. You have to look 
after your oxygen reserves. Oxygen diminishes if you 
touch seaweeds or fancy underwater animals. And just 
being underwater diminishes it as well, but happily 
at a much slower pace. To recover it you wether go to 
the surface to breathe or find bubbles. Each bubbles 
grants you a “life”, this is, 100 extra oxygen units. 
You start the game with just 100 units and no extra 
“lives”. So you know you have to look for oxygen!

You can shoot harpoons which will paralyze your enemies 
momentarily. They are quite limmited. Recovering artifacts 
give you a few extra harpoons as well. Save them, 
they can be quite neccesary.

Inside the ship you’ll find devices which can be activated 
like levers in those Phantomas games. No, don’t worry, 
our favourite thief is NOT in this game – activating such 
levers will make some gates inside the ship to open.

There’s a fancy LED display which throws away some info 
from time to time. Check it out, at least because it 
took so much work to code!


Controls

O LEFT
P RIGHT
Q DOES NOTHING BUT LOOKS COOL TO NAME AN EXTRA CONTROL!
A SWIM DOWN
SPACE SHOOT


Loading instructions

This game is presented only in 128k. This game takes 
advantage of the modified ULA present in the Harlequin 
clone and implemented in emulators such as ZX Spin 0.7l 
or Fuse. You’ll see fancy colours if you load the game in 
a ULA-modified Harlequin (when this is possible in the 
future) or such emulators.

To load the 128K version, select “Loader” in the menu and 
press ENTER. Press PLAY on tape and the game will 
load automaticly.