LYNX KUNG FOOD

Revenge of the Leftovers!

Your kitchen is usually a safe, warm place. Not any more. The top secret chemical you stored in your fieezer became active when the door was left open. Now the contents of your freezer have come to life, and the effects of this chemical have spread throughout the kitchen. Even you have been transformed. Reduced to a little green man, you must boldly go to your freezer and destroy such transformed tidbits as ice demons and killer kung fu carrots. If you fail, your fearsome food will conquer the world.

Getting Started

Insert your Lynx Kung Food game card in your Lynx.
Turn on the Lynx. The Title screen appears.
Press Option I for a description of the game and a summa y of game instructions. To skip the instructions, press A or B.
An animation sequence appears, showing you escaping from Odnet Headquarters with the stolen Rynoleum in your beat-up pickup truck (Screen 1). (Screen numbers in these instructions refer to the Gallery of Game Screens at the end of this manual.)
Press A or B to begin the game.

Playing the Game

Kung Food is an action adventure game. You must fight your way through your freezer, refrigerator, and other parts of your kitchen, destroying mutant food as you go. Ultimately, you must get to the lawn sprinkler outside. There you can wash off the contaminants and become a human again.

When the game begins, you see your kitchen. The freezer is highlighted (Screen 2).

Press A or B. The screen shows our hero, the food fighter, inside the freezer. Screen 3 also shows the time remaining, the energy bar, and the number of your remaining lives.

At the top right of the screen there is a clock. This clock shows the amount of time you have to complete the current level. If you fail to complete the level, the world is doomed. If you make it, you will immediately move on to the next challenge.

The energy bar on the right edge of the screen is very important. If you run out of energy, your food will eat you.

The hearts in the lower right comer of the screen indicate the number of lives remaining. You start the game with three extra lives. When these are gone, you lose (unless you can find more).

Before beginning your quest for safe snacks, take a few seconds to practice the game controls. You will need to master the controls quickly if you want to survive.

Jab                  Quickly press and release the A button.
Punch                Hold down the A button.
Kick right or left   Press A while pressing the joypad right or left.
Rapid Low Kick       Press A while pressing the joypad down.
Jump                 Press B.
Jump kick            Press B, then A.

When you are ready, get moving. Time is running out and your dinner is running amok! You begin on the top shelf. You must drop to the next shelf to meet your foes. Move to the bottom of the screen and you will fall to the next shelf.

Immediately, an ice demon attacks (Screen 4). This is just the first of the many mutants you must face. Beat him up until he explodes. It's not pretty. but then again. watching a salad destroy the world is no bouquet of roses!

Once you destroy your first enemy' move on to the next. As you forage tht-ough your fi eezer, keep an eye out for Power Balls---they could save your life. Most Power Balls are in plain sight, but some may be hidden behind other objects (Screens 5 & 6).

There are four types of Power Balls:

Energy Up	Raises your energy.
Extra Life	Gives you an additional chance to succeed.
Power Punch	Makes your fists more lethal than a raging rutabaga.
Invincibility	Makes you food-proof for a limited time (Screen 7).

Run over a Power Ball to eat it. When eating Energy Up Balls, keep in mind that your energy can only be as high as the top of the Energy Bar. Eating extra energy will not help you before a fight, but you might need to go back and replenish yourself after a killer tomato spits a tew poison seeds at you (Screen 8).

Each level is divided into smaller segments. You cannot move from one segment to the next until all mutants in your segment have been defeated. When the segment is clear, the word "GO!"appears on the right of the screen (Screen 9).

To win the game, you must complete each level within the allotted time. If you succeed, the world will be safe again, although you may never look at food in the same way again. On the other hand, If you fail, you will never need to eat again. The world will be oven un by savage spuds and pouncing peas.

Strategy

Destroy everything that moves.

When you are in a low kick position with a column of angry vegetables coming toward you, hold down the A button tor nonstop kicking action.

If you have time, walk behind cans and other objects. You never know what you might find.

If an endless number of evil edibles starts coming out of a bag or box, you can destroy the bag or box--if you can get to it. If you don't, you will quickly be outnumbered.

Don't eat every Energy Up Ball when you come to it. It does no good to eat excess energy before a fight when the fight will deplete your energy. So if your energy is at full strength, leave the balls until you need them. (But don't scroll them off the screen, or you will lose them forever!)

Scoring

After you pick up some points, they appear in the upper right corner of the screen. Your total is also on the screen that appears when you lose a lite. Points are awarded as follows:

All powerups              200
Ice man                   300
Sausage man               200
Tomato                    400
Pea                       100
Ice king                  2000 + 100 per strike *
Carrot                    300
Mash man                  200
Big batter man            2000 + 200 per strike
Fly                       600
Rat                       600
Rat riding sausage        2000 + 300 per strike
Green slimy               600
Big green slimy           2000 + 400 per strike
Bubble bottle             800 + 100 per strike
Apple copter              2500 + 500 per strike
Spider                    400
Ant                       1000
Wasp                      800
Slug                      1000
Snail                     600
Red whirlwind plant       5000 + 600 per strike
Yellow whirlwind plant    25000 + 700 per strike

* A "strike" is a hit without a kill.