INTRODUCTION Are you the one in a million who can think in microseconds not minutes??? If you are, Metro-Cross is the challenge that's been designed to inspire you, if you're not then you'd better fast improve your skill and co-ordination. A chequered floor riddled with potholes, a barrage of obstacles that hinder your progress and green tiles that slow you down make this race against time increasingly impossible. But not everything is against you. Springboards are primed to catapult you forward and a speeding skatebaord waits ready to hurtle you along that desperate rush to the finish line. If you beat the clock the first time there's no guarantee you'll not be flattened at the next level. CONTROLS Use joystick in Port two, ur use keys: [A] = Up [Z] = Down [<] = Left [>] = Right [SPACE] = Jump GREEN SQUARES These squares will slow you down. TRAP SQUARES You'll fall into a hole when you walk over them. MINE SQUARES These will explode when you walk over them. SPRING BOARDS Increase your speed, strategically to enable faster completion of a level. To use them you have to jump on it! SKATEBOARDS Green squares can't slow you down when you use a skateboard. BLUE CANS Jump on them, and the timer stops for some seconds. GREEN CANS Jump on them, this will double your speed for some seconds. RATS If they bite your shoulders you slow down for some seconds. HURDLES/ROLLING COKE CANS/WALLS Avoid or jump over these obstacles. TIRES/CHESSMAN/MOVING RED SQUARE Avoid these, don't try to jump over these obstacles. TIMER The timer at the bottom left indicates time left available. The times at the bottom right indicates your remaining time from the last level you played. Extra time is awarded at every fourth level. The times from the first three levels get counted together. GAME OVER The game is over when the timer reaches zero! LEVELS Metro-cross comprises 24 levels which increase in difficulty.