Bally, The Professional Videocade (TM), Cartridge


BIORHYTHM #4004

Enter your birthdate and watch as the computer calculates your physical, emotional and intellectual cycles.  The screen displays your highs, lows and critical days.  This program can be great fun at parties.  Biorhythm can help you develop a new awareness of your moods and personal interaction with the world.  1 or 2 players.

Copyright (c)1981 Astrovision, Inc.  All Rights Reserved 


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Videocade #4004

BIORHYTHM

Programmed by Curt Rostenbach and Bob Ogden

LOADING INSTRUCTIONS

1.  Turn on your Bally Professional Arcade and TV set, then select channel 3 or 4.

2.  Connect hand control #1 by inserting it into the first jack on the back left side (as you face the front of the Arcade).

3.  Insert the Biorhythm cartridge, label side up, into the cartridge slot.  Press it down firmly to lock it into position.

4.  Press the RESET button and the menu of games will be displayed. 

Copyright (c)1981 Astrovision, Inc.  All Rights Reserved 


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BIORHYTHM (1 or 2 players)

     Enjoy making predictions about the mental, physical and emotional states of you and your friends.  Use this program to create a greater awareness of the ups and downs of every day life.  Then work with (and around) those mood changes towards a more harmonious existence.


HOW TO PLAY

     Choose Biorhythm for one or two players by pressing 1 or 2 on the keypad or by using the remote game selection (pull the trigger on hand control #1, turn the knob until 1 or 2 appears on the screen, then pull the trigger again).

     After selecting Biorhythm at the main menu, use the hand control #1 to enter your name.  To enter a character, move the joystick forward or backward until the correct character is shown.  (Move the joystick to the left to go back through the characters quickly; move it right to go forward quickly.)  If you make a mistake while entering your name, push the joystick to the left to delete the last character.  Press the trigger after each character is entered.  The program will ask for your partner's name for two player games; otherwise, it will immediately request the date of your birth.

                   Forward Slow
                        ^
                        |
Backward Fast <---------|---------->Forward Fast
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                        V
                   Backward Slow

     Enter your birth date, using the same procedure for entering your name or use the keypad.  Be sure to always enter two digits for the day and month (01 not 1) and four digits for the year--DD/MM/YYYY.  Select the appropriate number then press = or the trigger to register your choice.  Continue to do so until the complete date is entered.  If you make a mistake, back up one character by pushing the joystick to the left or by pressing CE.

     Finally, use the same procedure to enter the starting date.  It can be the current date or any other date you choose.


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BIORHYTHM CHART CONTROL

     Your biorhythm chart will appear with arrows pointing to the starting date.  In the upper left corner, M (Mental), P (Physical) and E (Emotional) will be shown in colors corresponding to those used on the chart.  Use the trigger to advance the chart one day at a time, or push the joystick to the left to go back in time or to the right to go forward in time.  As the chart advances, notice the M P E in the upper left corner.  The appropriate letter will flash on potentially critical mental, physical or emotional days when the corresponding color crosses at the midpoint of the chart.  On less critical days, highs and lows are indicated by the pattern of the three states in relation to the midpoint of the chart.

     Use Biorhythm to look into the future and avoid potentially critical situations.  Or, understand your moods better by checking your chart at a particularly critical time period in your past.  If you decide you would like to change the starting date so that you can look at an earlier time period, or if you would like to move into the future charts quickly, change the starting date by pressing the trigger while pulling the joystick backward.

                           Not Used
                               ^
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Move Chart Left Fast <---------|---------->Move Chart Right Fast
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                               V
               Get New Starting Date with Trigger

               
PLAYING AGAIN

     To play Biorhythm again, press the RESET button (or pull the trigger on hand control #1), and follow the instructions for starting the game.


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Typed by William, April 2000
Converted to text format April 12, 2002 - Adam Trionfo, www.ballyalley.com

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