Driller

Year of release: 1987
Publisher: Incentive Software Ltd
Producer/Author(s): Major Developments (Chris Andrew, Paul Gregory, Stephen Northcott)

Listed on: WorldOfSpectrum , Wikipedia

Controls:
O - Forward/Up
K - Back/Down
Q - Left
W - Right
0 - Fire
SPACE - Toggles between Movement & Attack Mode

OTHER CONTROLS
P - Look up
L - Look down
N - Tilt left
M - Tilt right
A - Increase angle
Z - Decrease angle
S - Increase step size
X - Decrease step size
R - Rise vertically
F - Fall vertically
I - Information screen (Load/Save game)
U - U turn
D - Drill
C - Cancel drilling
B - Cursor on/off

YOUR MISSION
Evath has two moons, Mitral and Tricuspid. Mitral has been heavily mined by an outlawed people, the Ketars, who have now fled the moon. A vast amount of gas has built up underneath Mitral's surface, and should Mitral explode, thousands of Evathians will be wiped out as Evath is thrown out of orbit. The resulting freeze will wipe out your planet's entire population! Scientists have calculated a meteor is due to strike Mitral in a matter of hours and this alone will cause this disaster.

Your Overall Mission is to make safe each of the 18 sectors of Mitral by positioning a drilling rig over the gas pockets in each sector before the meteor strikes.

In order to achieve this you will need to:

Gain access to and enter each of the 18 sectors.
Determine the gas centre and place the drilling rig on each sector to release at least 50% of the gas below. (Use geological clues, intuition or trial and error for this).
Locate and absorb sufficient Rubicon crystals for your continuing survival.
Avoid and/or destroy the laser beacons, and Skanners.

As a sub mission: Amass as high a success rating as possible!

You have just landed on one of Mitral's artificial surfaces. You are within your excavation probe. The whole world depends on you... you have been chosen... it's up to you ...