Scumball screenshots

This screen displays as the game loads

This is the game's main menu. The games credits scroll across the bottom.

This is the games control menu

Keys can be redefined. Nothing unusual here - apart from a report option that is

The game starts here. Once LINDA finishes recharging she's ready to move

LINDA drops into the game area like this. At the top of the screen is a useful feature which is the location identifier. This is location 0 .... going down

LINDA lands in location 4

Moving to the left LINDA enters location 3

The bubbles that come out of holes in the ground - like the one in front of LINDA - burst and spawn a bad thing of some kind

The bad things score 100 points each and there's lots of places like this where LINDA can just stand and shoot them

Found a bonus just lying around. Other bonuses found are 1000, 800, & 200 points

IN the top left there are three meters. A column of white bars, yellow bars (all gone) and blue ones. The blue ones decrease with shots fired. This battery restores three blue bars

Location 21. This must be the end of the level or something because jumping off this platform triggers this ....

... a report on the current status. I don't think LINDA is supposed to go past here until all pods have been destroyed, the monster has been vanquished, and the world has been saved

This is a death screen, just lost a life. The red things that drip water from the roof are deadly. Do not stand under them

Collecting the object below causes the number next to the word GRENADES in the top of the screen to decrease from 8 to 7

This is game over, when either the last life has gone, or all energy in the last life has been used

Collecting this object causes a small red ball to shoot out to the left. There's no other apparent benefit.

To the right there's an 'L' object to be collected, cunningly placed under a red thing that kills. Collecting it topped up the yellow energy column but decreased the blue

Standing on this for too long costs a life. LINDA falls through on to the spikes. Those are spikes in the water too

There's something in the pit at the end that, when collected, restores two blue energy bars

Location 55! This game feels vast. Drawing a map is recommended

Scumball

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