Title – Act Hands
System – Family Basic
Author – Rapas
Publication – マイコンBASIC (Micom Basic) 1991 01
Page Scans – 1 2 3
Preserved By – ozidual
Recommended Emulator – VirtuaNES
Story
A long time ago, in Zipangu, a game called Janken was born. This game was invented by humans, but for some reason, the gods of Zipangu also liked to play it. Then, when the gods tried to remake this game into something new, they came up with the game Act Hand.
Operation
Select mode: You can change various values. Use the Select button to move the cursor and the B button to change the value. Use the Start button to wake up. ODE is A or B, A has rock-paper-scissors play, B does not. LEVEL and HIGH are from 1 to 7, the higher the LEVEL number, the faster the blocks fall, and HIGH makes it more difficult because the height that blocks can be stacked is lower. You can choose Blocks 10-45.
Main: You can move the blocks with the down button. Also, in Mode A, there is a rock-paper-scissors game, so the left button on the D-Pad is rock, the up button is paper and the right button is scissors.
Play
You win by reducing the number of blocks to 0 or by winning the rock-paper-scissors game in Mode A three times. You lose by when the number of blocks reaches the HIGH height or when you lose three times in rock-paper-scissors in Mode A or when your opponent reaches 0 blocks first in a two-player game.
Now, there are 4 patters to remove blocks. Please see figure 1. Anyway you just need to put a winning block on the block below.
At that time, if you use a hand block, the number of blocks will decrease by one. However, if you use a Janken block to erase the blocks, the number of blocks will not decrease, but in Mode A, 1 will add to your POINTS, and when POINTS reaches 3, a Janken match will begin. Jankenpon! will appear on top. The Janken check will be made by the first player so the first player must press the button first. In 1 PLAYER, you will play against the computer, and in 2PLAYER you will play against your opponent. Once the winner has been decided you will return to the main game.
Oh, and please note that when playing with two people, the speed and operation will be somewhat slower.
Finally
It’s been a while since I last played RAPAS. This may be sudden but I wanted to minimize FOR-NEXT and GOSUB, so this is the game I ended up with. The program became messy again, but I had no choice because my memory was full.
As for characters, I wanted to make them in the shape of a fist or a pie hand (because they’re easy to see), but that wasn’t possible on Famicom, so I had no choice but to make them like this.
Figure 1
グー パー ピー \
ピー グー パー +– Hand Block
パー ピー グー /
JA \
JA +– Rock, Paper, Scissors Block
JA /
