-----The gamE-----

Pathos is a single-player side-scrolling shoot-em-up game that features customizable keys, progressive music, transparent images, hi-resolution, high-color quality graphics (16-bit) in five (5) challenging levels.

-----Rules and objectiveS-----

Shoot every green thing in sight! Survive. Win.

-----Game navigatioN-----

¬, ® – run left and right

­ - aim up

¯ – crouch/aim down

"Drooooooppp!" You commander’s scream instantly wakes you up from a beautiful dream of you and Antoinette spending a day in the beach. Cursing under your breath, you realize that you’re in no beach but under the sun one training day here in Ateneo. How pathetic, you think—the whole week you have been loaded with quizzes and projects that you barely had the time to sleep, or even to eat. Oh yeah, don’t forget that pathetic project in CS that you’re required to submit the following day. You think of how wasted you and your group mates have become, working tediously the whole week and cutting classes just to finish the program. As you painfully do the last 100 pushups Commander Marjvosa ordered you to do, you are once again at the beach, relishing the moment as you slowly cup Antoinette’s face close to yours. You kiss her gently, which sends sparks of electricity into your whole body. BRATATATATAT!!!! The sound of a machinegun being fired sends you quickly to your feet, and you quickly jump for cover to a near tree. As you take a peek into the confusion, you see your comrades’ bodies lie strewn on the floor—their bodies riddled with bullets to the extreme evil of hell. Damn! What is happening here? As you try to concentrate and think of your next move, a kick on your face quickly sends you reeling to the ground. As you gasp for breath, an M1 Garrand lands on the ground beside you and you see Commander Marjvosa wink at you as she brings your green-clad attacker down with one shot in the head. Nice shot, you think. "Now is the chance for you to show the world what you’ve got, boy," she tells you, smiling. You search the green-clad corpse for any note of identity but there is none. The only thing you notice is that the corpse is wearing an all-green battle gear. An image of Antoinette being held captive by one of those green guys flashes into your mind, and you quickly make a decision—you must not let anything happen to her! Determined to destroy the mastermind behind this sudden attack, you run through the battlefield, bringing only an M1 Garrand and a picture of Antoinette along with you. As you charge through the battlefield, you notice that all invaders are wearing green and in an instant, you come into a realization that they could only come from one organization, an organization which makes you more determined to finish this war--DLSU.

-----System requirementS-----

We could only provide help for installing over windows 95-based Personal Computers. We have not tried the game on any other system aside from Intel-based PC’s so we cannot assure you any support for other systems such as MAC and DIGITAL.

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-----InstallatioN-----

1. From the diskettes:

You can play pathos directly from disk 1 by typing the command at the DOS prompt:

appletviewer Pathos.html

This will run the simple version of Pathos. Optionally, if you would like to hear high-quality, progressive soundtrack then install the game into your hard drive by unzipping each of .ZIP files in disks 2-4 into the root directory of your local drive (using WinZip or any other unzipping utility). Then change your directory to \PATHOS and type the following at the DOS prompt:

appletviewer Pathos.html

(This assumes that you have the Java Developers’ Kit installed.) If you are using MS Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator/Navigator, simply type in the path to the Pathos.html file (i.e. C:\Pathos\Pathos.html if installed on the C drive)

2. From the Internet:

-----Main MenU-----

Start – click to start a new game

  Options Menu:

    Music – click on the box and click on:

Off – for no background music, use for 14.4K modems

Simple - for basic background music, use for 28.8/33.6K modems

Progressive - for full background music, use for    56K/ISDN modems.

Sound Effects – click on the box and click on:

Off – for no sound effects, use for slow modems or to speed up gameplay

On – for enabling sound effects, use for fast modems

Level Loading – click on the box and click on:

On-demand – this will load level data at the beginning of their respective levels; use on really slow Machines, but not recommended since this will add a long delay between levels due to level downloading time.

Background – this will load level data while game is being played; this slows down the game but will speed up the dealay in-between intervals.

Note: Download speed concerns mentioned here are only pertinent when playing the game from the Internet.

-----BonuseS-----

Iced Tea – left over from previous ROTC training days, these cups will not boost your health so much... but, well, you’ve got no choice...

-----EnemieS-----

La Sallite gunners – they are too dumb that they do not even know how to shoot their guns, so just watch out for them trying to bump into you ;-)

A surprising end game Boss – who (or what?) do you think you’ll find in the Unix lab? No, the progenitor of this stinking mess is NOT a La Sallite, but WORSE!... you’ll find out soon enough!