MELTDOWN

               It is the middle of the night at the Megalopolis nuclear
          power generating plant. In the stillness of the control room,
          all hell has broken loose. Eight flights above, in the five
          reactors and the monumental machinery surrounding them, there
          is something terribly wrong. The coolant system is failing,
          the cores are boiling dry, and unless the tremendous heat of
          the nuclear reaction can be dispersed, the reactors may begin
          to melt.
               Your assignment is to reach each reactor in time, remove
          the uranium rods and return to safety. You must evade layers
          of radioactive mist and clouds, dash through a corridor
          containing bolts of atomic energy, and then through a series
          of moving rooms (most of which disappear after you exit)
          until you reach the reactors. Here you enter the containment
          chamber, extract the rods and move them to the lead safety
          vault by returning the same hazardous course. Deactivate all
          five reactors before the temperature gauge reaches 5200
          degrees and you are challenged by five new reactors with
          varying risks. Ten different screens with ten levels of
          difficulty.
          SCORING: You receive 10 pts. every time you move your player
          through a layer closer to the reactors on the way up and
          through a layer on the way down. Upon reaching the reactors
          you receive 200 pts. And when you reach the bottom safely you
          receive an additional 200 pts. If you use only 'safe'
          chambers (marked 'M') on your trip up and down, you'll
          receive a 1000 pt. bonus. Each time you complete a level (all
          5 reactors) you get 1000 pts.
          BONUS PLAYERS: You will receive a free 'BONUS' player for
          each 10000 pts. that you earn. Extra players are represented
          by faces in the bottom right corner of the screen. The most
          players that you can have at any one time is four.
          OPTION KEY: The OPTION key controls the number of players
          to play. If you press the OPTION key during play,
          the game will end.
          SELECT KEY: The SELECT key controls whether or not you start
          at the first level (RESTART) or continue from the last level
          attained (CONTINUE). By selecting the CONTINUE mode, you may
          also choose the level you wish to play by moving the handle
          of the joystick no.1.
          START KEY: The START key will start the game or restart it if
          it is press while the game is in play. The 'FIRE' button on
          joystick no.1 will also start the game.
          END OF GAME: The game will end if you lose all your players
          or if you allow the temperature gauge at the bottom left of
          the screen to reach the top (that's 5200 degrees, the melting
          point of uranium and meltdown of your nuclear p hr
          reactors!).