We're all worms. Let's act like worms!

Sink your friends into the depths of the Martian gloop or leave them to burn in the lava pits of Hades. Tailor your cunning to suit the ultimate abuse of strategy and decency in the most addictive game ever to be called Worms!

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Back of the Playstation cover

Worms requires great thought, strategy and elements of sheer outrageous fortune within an almost infinite range of playing possibilities. This game has tons of weapon power-ups (bazookas, cluster bombs, and homing missiles), and the most brutal worm battalions ever to infest a game screen!

Teams take turns to bombard the enemy with whatever weapon they feel is likely to reap the most reward. The last team remaining wins the game. Designed for one to four players of all ages.

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Back Cover - Jaguar

• Spectacular 1 to 16 player gameplay - it's the social event of the decade!

• Over 4 Billion levels of unbeatable arcade action!

• Cherish your Worms, name them, hear them, squeeze them tight.

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Back Cover - DOS

Voted Game of the Year in 1995, Worms established itself as a PlayStation smash hit, despite the fact that it has no pretences about pushing the power of PlayStation to its limit. Instead, gameplay rules supreme in this turn-based strategy game that's packed with humour.

Players control up to 8 teams of worms over hostile terrain where the only objective is to survive - and the surest form of defence is attack. Weapons on offer include homing missiles, scatter bombs, bazookas, shotguns, dynamite and even Street Fighter II moves! Opponents have to be out-thought as well as out-fought, and the sneakier the thinking the better - Worms really comes to life against human opposition. Looking for something different? Get Worms. As the publicity says, the worms have turned. And how.

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uk.playstation.com

Voted 8th Greatest Game of All Time — PC Gaming World August 1998

Worms combines the best elements from the very best games ever created. It requires great thought, strategy and elements of sheer outrageous fortune. It provides the players with an almost infinite range of playing possibilities and we guarantee that no two games will ever be the same!

Worms can be played by 1-16 players at the same time - It's a turn based game so you'll only need one machine - but prepare to be at odds with your loved ones, get ready to shout abuse at your best friend and be willing to exact unadulterated terror on those who plot to hurt your worms...

Worms is the ideal way for a few friends to enjoy a few hours. Players can configure the game through it's myriad of options and tailor the whole fashion of play. It's a game you can pick up with a few spare minutes or play an entire weekend! It's Worms - you'll love it!

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Back of Box - DOS (Sold Out release) (UK)

The most outrageous multi-player shooter ever created arrives on the PlayStation game console. WORMS is an ultra-addictive game of team strategy for up to 16 players! It's a little bit Lemmings and a whole lotta Terminator ...only more pink and more squishy. WORMS' fast-paced, totally unrelenting game-play boasts outlandish scenarios, tons of weapon power-ups (bazookas, cluster bombs and homing missiles), and four of the most brutal worm battalions ever to infest a game screen!

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Back of Jewel Case - PlayStation (US)

They're Mean, Moist and Loaded for Action!

## WORMS IS AN ULTRA-FAST-PACED GAME OF TEAM STRATEGY FOR UP TO 16 PLAYERS. ITS A LITTLE BIT "LEMMINGS" AND A LOTTA BIT "TERMINATOR"... ONLY MORE PINK AND SQUISHY. WITH BAZOOKAS, HOMING MISSILES AND CLUSTER BOMBS BLASTING THE SCREEN IN AN UNRELENTING FURY, ONLY THE MOIST CAN SURVIVE! WITH FOUR TEAMS AND FOUR WORMS PER TEAM--EACH WORM CONTROLLED BY A DIFFERENT PLAYER--UP TO 16 PLAYERS CAN DUKE IT OUT ON A SINGLE CONTROLLER!

IT'S THE ULTIMATE BATTLE OF STRATEGY, WITS AND REFLEXES TO GAIN DOMINANCE OF CHALLENGING LANDSCAPES--FROM DIRT AND WATER TO LAVA AND MARTIAN GLOOP.

EACH BATTALION OF FOUR WORMS TAKE TURNS BOMBARDING THE ENEMY WITH WHATEVER WEAPONS THEY CAN DIG UP --INCLUDING THE ULTIMATE WEAPON: EXPLODING KILLER SHEEP!

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Back of Jewel Case - SEGA Saturn (US)

Lieber Lehrer,

Vielen Dank für die wiederholte Erwähnung meines Namens im Klassenbuch. Ich habe mich wahnsinnig darüber gefreut. Auch der geile (crossed out) liebenswerte Brief von Ihnen in diesem coolen, blauen Umschlag hat vorallem meine Alten (crossed out) Eltern hoch entzückt. Gerne werde ich nächstes ahr alles nochmal lernen, zusammen mit den Kids, denen ich früher eins drauf gegeben habe.

Ich danke Ihnen für Ihre Freundlichkeit und werde gleich vorbeikommen um mich HÖCHSTPERSÖNLICH ZU BEDANKEN...

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...mit meinem Lieblingsspielzeug!

KOMPLETT IN DEUTSCH*

Hast Du manchmal das Gefühl, von Deinen schlimmsten Feinden wie ein Wurm behandelt zu werden?

Dreh' den Spieß um und mach sie fertig, mit WORMS !

„Die Lemminge sind tot - lang leben die Würmer!“ (PC Joker)

Gib den Worms die Namen Deiner Lieblingsfeinde, lauere ihnen auf und wenn sie Dir in die Quere kommen: Knall sie ab! Schnapp Dir die Waffen aus Deinem riesigen Arsenal: z.B. Bazookas, Dynamit, Handgranaten oder die supergefährlichen explodierenden Schafe und Bananen-Bomben. In der Welt der WORMS lebt man nur nach einer Regel: Töten oder getötet werden!

WORMS ist absolut dynamitgeladen und verspricht bombigen Spielspaß. Zusammen mit bis zu 16! Spielern kannst Du ballern was das Zeug hält.

Aber VORSICHT: Suchtgefahr!!! Wegen Risikien und Nebenwirkungen, lies die Packungsbeilage oder frag Deinen Händler.

WORMS

*außer Playstation

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Print advertisement - PC Player 01/1996

WORMS is the hit product that is available on most other next-gen systems. Designed for one to four players, this game combines the best elements from the very best games ever created. The game requires great thought, strategy and elements of sheer outrageous fortune within an almost infinite range of playing possibilities. Teams take it in turn to bombard the enemy with whatever weapon they feel is likely to reap the most reward. Each battle has a time period and once this is over a period of extra time may be played where all remaining worms are reduced to 1 unit of energy and the slightest hit will render them out of the game. The last team remaining wins the game.

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