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CREDITS Privacy Notice: This may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Intro Banzai Bug is fun game based on on a cool concept. The character is seen through the "bug's-eye-view" of a flying bug. You fly through rooms and kitchens, completing various tasks and warding off evil pests. The gameplay is pretty easy to control and fun. Overall its a good game that lacks a little in replay value ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Manuevering =============================================================================== - Three Ways to Fly There are three ways of flying or maneuvering banzai. Probably the one to use most is the plane mode. Hold down the "plane button" and banzai flies like a plane, (sort of like a flight sim). He can also fly straight up or down with the elevator button. Its in reverse, (down is up, up is down) so it takes some getting used to. And then there's helicopter mode. Holding down the fire/activate button and he will hover like a helicopter. Up moves forward, back goes in reverse, left hovers left, right hovers right. Learning to use 2 or 3 of these modes of flight will definitely help you in this game. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Enemies =============================================================================== A. Hovering "robobug" - These round blue bugs will hover around hoping to bite you. They can be shot down by firing off your spit rounds. (The fire/activate button) They can also be zapped with the same button. Just wait till your close to an enemy and press the fire/activate button repeatedly. B. Yellow "robobug" - They give zaps which are what you use to shock enemies. Either shoot them down with spit or shock them if they get to close. C. Red "robobug" - These guys are tough to beat. They're agressive and quick They can't be shot with spit, so you'll have to wait until they're close and shock 'em. But they do give zings, which are the same as a piece of food - 1 life D. Yellow Shooters - These are like yellow bugs but instead of a biting attack they shoot little red bullets at you. They can be a little tough, but just aim well. They're not too bad early in the game E. Red Shooters - These are the worst of the flying pests. They can't be stopped by bullets but there bullets will keep you at bay, killing pretty quickly in the process Shoot them just to knock them off guard and try to move in and shock em. F. Cannons - Sentry guns positioned throughout game ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Characters =============================================================================== A. Banzai - The brave hero you control. He's sort of like a fly or a mosquito , I'm not sure which. He vanquishes his enemies with spitballs and an ability to shock nearby enemies with lightning. B. Poolio - A little moth that tells you what to do in each level. Listen carefully to him before and during the level. C. Transport Grubs - These little guys will help you transport some ear wax in the Living Room level. D. Albert - A friend of Banzai's that gets trapped and must be rescued E. The Spider - Banzai's girlfriend he gets trapped in one of the levels F. Slug-O - Your mortal enemy. He seeks to destroy you and your Spider girlfriend by any means possible ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. Hints and Suggestions =============================================================================== 1. Use the plane button alot. You go faster and its easier to manuever 2. When shooting down blue and yellow bugs. Point banzai directly at them, then fly forward and shoot at the same time. Its not hard to learn but it makes things alot easier. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. Walkthrough =============================================================================== A. The Garage Your first mission, all you have to do is find some pieces of food. Easy enough Watch out for the blue guys, they bite! Shoot em with your spit if you have to. If your having trouble finding the food, check behind one of the two purple desks against the wall. There's another one in the bookshelf where the cannon is at. The third one one on top of the that blue ice cream cone shaped thing. Keep going high on top of the purple cabinets. The last one is still up high in the cactus plant. Proceed onto the vent where Poolio is waiting. B. Poolio's Ducts In this mission you just have to fly through some tunnel like passages. Shoot the blue and yellow guys with your spit (fire/activate button). There's a few pieces of food in the first few tunnels. Its best to point towards them and fly forward while shooting. If you see a place to go up or down go up. From there always go left and you'll make it through. Fly past the cannons quickly. When you get to a chamber full of yellow guys, try to shoot/shock them to get past it. Its the same button but you have to be close to shock them. Get the piece of food worth 3 lives on the floor. When you get to a big opening there will be a few red robobug. Get close and shock them. To get past the cannons, fly in there direction and shoot repeatedly in there direction. Hopefully some shots will hit. Then fly into the square hole where they were. Follow the tunnel. There's just two red robobug left. Shock them and head to the bottom of the opening into the vent. C. Dad's Workshop As Poolio says, you need 5 matches. Easier said than done! First off, gather some food. If you can't find any there's two behind the workbench on the floor, one under the stool, and an atomic (5 lives) one in a cabinet guarded by a cannon. (The last one is by the matchbook you need to get the matches from). Also shoot down some yellow dudes. Your gonna need zaps. have 8 or 9 lives, start getting the matches. Go over on the workbench in the corner. Aha! the matchbook. First shoot the cannon. Do this each time you get a match Get right next to the side that says open, and press the fire/activate button. Banzai knocks open the matchbook. Now go on the side of the matchbook now that its opened. Hit the matchbook again and a match will fly out. Go on the side so that you can hit it away from where the cannon is. Now go get the match. You have to be really low to the ground to get it. NOw take it back to the vent. Now do the same thing again. On the third match kill a few enemies on the way. There's a few more this time around. On the fourth time there's even more, so definitely knock some down. On the last time it gets tricky. Shoot down some enemies on the way. There's a robotic saucer type thing guarding the matches. Kill as many enemies next to it as you can. Don't try killing the saucer. Do your best to retrieve the match as he shocks the everliving crud out of you. Once you knock it out its pretty hard to scoop up the match. Scoop it up and keep flying straight towards the vent. One more problem. You have to get past the other robot saucer guarding the vent. Expect to drop the match but wait to pick it up. See if you can sneak in the corner of the vent while you wait for a bunch of bugs to surround you. (Including some red bugs) Zap all the bugs, shoot some if you have to. At this point the saucer will either explode or go back to the bench. Pick up the dropped match and go into the vent. D. The Living Room First off head straight down to a pillow resting on a step. Take the atomic food morsel underneath it. Quickly use the up elevator back to where your grubs are flying. Fight off any pests that come. If you want to to shoot the blue bugs, aim at an angle so that the missed spitballs won't kill your grubs. After they get their first load, Dad will turn on the bug sheild. Usually it won't matter on the first trip because they've already gotten an egg shaped ball of ear wax in there grasp. But if one or two still don't have one, you'll need to turn off the bug sheild somehow. If you go under the stairwell you'll find the on/off switch. Red is bad, green is good. Seems backwards somehow. Hit the button. Now kill a yellow bug or two on your way back to your grubs. Try to defend the ones that are in trouble. If any of your bugs still need to get past the bug sheild, even if its one or two, still go back and turn it off again. Usually, the other ones won't go back to the vent otherwise. They'll slowly make there way back to vent towards the ceiling. On the second trip, the red bugs start coming. These are the test of whether you have a chance of beating this level. They'll attack your grubs like assasins, no mercy . Be quick and shock em. The best way is to try to intercept them, mid-flight, before they get to the grubs. Find time to get zaps. There's plenty of yellow bugs. If you can somehow manage to get down to about three balls of wax left, its gonna get even harder. Dad will suddenly become enraged and start hitting his chair, causing red bombs to fly everywhere. At this point, your grubs are pretty much on there own when they get close to the chair. Just escort them over there. If you get caught to close to the chair, try to face a little towards the chair as your avoiding the bombs. You need to see them to avoid them. Try to stay way up high by the vent. Safer there. Protect your grubs when they're out of range of the chair. Thats about all I can tell you. It takes practice to get through this one, alot! E. Bobby's Room First collect some food pieces and some zaps. There's a piece of food behind green shelves. There's one buy the baseball bat next to the bullseye. And there's one behind the green wooden dresser. Fly straight towards the bullseye where albert is held captive. Hit fire/activate repeatedly and Banzai will hit the bullseye one or two times. Then quickly retreat by flying behind the desk along the wall. Come out the other side and dodge the problem child's lasers as best as possible. Try up and down first then left and right, or vice versa. Get close and zap the kid. Immediately go back and hit Albert again. You only have enough time to get to the bullseye. I'd say about three times should do it. Then fly into the vent and your done F. Mom's Kitchen This is another great level, but very hard! Okay, first collect zaps and there's only one piece of food (well 2 really) so get that piece on the stove. Now your going to be getting pieces of cheese. Try to do it in pretty much the same order so you can practice and get better. Do the first 2 closest to the vent and then the next set of 2 closest and then the last 2. (Probably wondering about the 7th piece. just wait.) When you have alot of zaps and the piece of food, go after the first piece of cheese. Kill the cannon first, you have to zap it. You'll have to fly well to avoid its bullets which can take lives. In order not to lose a life when snapping the trap shut, do this. Get behind the trap and fly forward into it The trap will snap closed. Then to get the cheese, fly low to the ground with the helicopter button. I dont use helicopter mode very much, but its necessary here. Get zaps in between pieces of cheese. After the first 2 sets on either side of the countertops come the last 3 pieces About now is when you first meet the red shooters. They're pretty tough. There shots kill pretty quick and they can't be stopped with spitballs alone. To kill them you'll need to fire at them until they're disoriented and then move in to shock them. Now if you've gotten all the pieces of cheese you can see, the final piece reveals itself. Mom comes into the kitchen and opens a cabinet. Now she's spraying for bugs. Get a head start on her and head back towards the kitchen quickly. As soon as she opens the cabinet, rush towards the inside of it. You'll need to gain skill at this part. Try and hit the back of the trap as your flying into the cabinet. Its on the edge. When you hit it get into the back of the cabinet. All the fumes will kill you. Let the red bug come in and zap him. Get the star without taking a hit of fumes. When the fumes clear for a second, try and get the cheese (now that its snapped) on the fly, with helicopter mode. Now head back in plane mode quickly , but go straight past Mom's head towards the opposite wall. She's gonna keep spraying. Then head for the vent and get in quick. That was tough! G. The Hallway Okay this one's not so bad. You need to ignite some kind of stinkulator thing. Take your match in your hand and first get the atomic powerup next to the heater flame below you. You need to kill the red shooter bug so you can ignite your match. Just kill the first one. The rest just avoid. Now pick up you match because of course he knocked it out of your hands. Fly through the flame at the bottom of the heater. Now, you need to make it to end of the hallway without getting shot or hitting the green stinkballs. Avoid the red shooters, don't try to kill them. When you find the stinkulator, you'll see its making stinkballs with a tea kettle looking thing. It has a fan on top of it. Aim for the tip of the tea kettle looking thing. If you hit it, you've beaten the level. If you lose the match you'll have to go all the way back and ignite another one. There's more matches in the vent. Good luck. H. The Attic Okay, last one. Get the atomic powerup. Its inside an enclosure, sort of like a box. Just go straight from the start by flying straight, past the spider. You need to defeat the evil slug-o, an evil flying slug. But first you need to rescue the spider. You have to destroy the flying saucer things. If you can get 2 of them to shock you at the same time, they'll destroy each other. Wait till their flight path gets a little closer together. Then, spit at one of them until you get his attention. Then quickly go and spit at another one. If you get them both to start shocking you, you've done good. Keep shooting at them, and they'll blow up. Now repeat this process until your at the last 2. They should be close to the spider now. Do it again, but be sure to always be spitting at the one closest to the spider, or they'll shock her and she'll die. Okay, now go after slug-o. Don't worry about getting any salt yet. Get some zaps and head over by the corner where the slug is at. He'll send his minions at you. They're pretty easy. Just shock em when they fly at you. Don't hit them with your spit as you try to shock them though. Once that's done, its time to kill the slug. Find one of the 2 spilled salt shakers on the ground (on either side of the big platform). Just fly through it and banzai slurps it up. Now attack slug-o with your spit. He will dodge, so the best way is to fly quickly straight at him, and shoot when you get close. Each time you hit him he will move to a new location. He may be hard to find, but he's usually by a cannon. That's about it. When he's almost dead you might come across some red shooter bugs. You can try and ignore them, or kill them, but slugo's almost dead by that point anyway. Good job. That's the end! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. Credits -This game is abandonware. More information on it can be found at the Home of the Underdogs Website. http://www.the-underdogs.org. They have some great games and manuals and stuff. -Thanks to WhisperoftheDragons for the ASCII art as well as some tips on writing a better FAQ. copyright 2005 governator99