Lady’s Aerial Swimming (Takayuki Marunaka)

Title – Lady’s Aerial Swimming
System – Nintendo Family BASIC
Author – Takayuki Marunaka
Publication – Micom Basic (マイコンBASIC) November 1985
Page Scans – 1
Preserved By – ximwix
Recommended Emulator – Mesen

Download ROM

Files:

notes.txt – The file you’re reading now (wow!)
Lady’s Aerial Swimming (Takayuki Marunaka).nes – Game converted to standalone NES rom
las-prg.txt – The typed-up program listing
las-prg.wav – WAVE file of the program listing, for playback to hardware
las-bg.wav – WAVE file of the background, for playback to hardware
las-prg.vtp – Virtuanes tape file of the program listing
las-bg.vtp – Virtuanes tape file of the background
las-prg.fbt – Mesen tape file of the program listing
las-bg.fbt – Mesen tape file of the background
scan.jpg – A scan of the informational page and background and listing from Micom Basic
screenshot1.png – In-game screenshot
screenshot2.png – In-game screenshot

Notes:

(1)
The background is based off of two screenshots. I cannot be sure that
some of the graphics are exactly matching, or that the colors are the same
(since the image is black-and-white).

(2)
The “Lady” in the title refers to the refers to the female sprite that is
being bounced around here — in the Family BASIC manual this sprite is
referred to as “Lady”.

(3)
The name entry prompt when you get a hi-score says “NEME” instead of “NAME”.
This is how the string was published, and not a transcription error.

(4)
For the NES rom version of the game, I have removed the “high score name entry”
code, since name entry is not possible without a keyboard.

Game Instructions:
The game starts automatically after an intro tune. It’s a pretty basic
“breakout” clone. Bounce Lady around the screen, and as she collides with the
enemies flying around your score will increase. You can move left or right
at the bottom of the screen using the d-pad. You have to catch Lady to bounce
her back up into the air. If you miss her, then that is game over. If you
get the high score, you can enter your name.