Manual written in a txt file by Steve Begin (sbegin@videotron.ca) BIG NOSE THE CAVEMAN (Camerica) ------------------------------- Licensed by CodeMasters Instruction Manual If you get stuck in this incredible adventure you can always get help on the YO DUDES help line. Calls should only be made with the permission of the person who pays the phone bill. This service is only available in the USA at this time. Copyright 1991 Codemasters Software Company Limited. All Rights Reserved. Bignose is a product of Camerica Limited, Inc. and is not designed, manufactured, distributed or endorsed by Nintendo of America Inc. IMPORTANT PRECAUTIONS --------------------- We recommend that you take a 10 to 20 minute break for every 2 hours of play. Also to avoid eye strain, play the game at a reasonable distance from T.V. DO NOT touch the connectors or get them wet or dirty. DO NOT clean the game with benzene, alcohol, paint thinner or other such solvents. DO NOT store the game in places that are very hot or very cold. DO NOT hit it or drop it or attempt to take it apart. DO NOT use on a FRONT OR REAR PROJECTOR TV. Projection TV's can be permanently damaged by displaying stationary screens or patterns, eg. a game in pause mode. Camerica will not be held liable for any such damage. It is not a defect of the game, any stationary image can cause such damage. Please contact your TV manufacturer for more information. BIGNOSE THE CAVEMAN ------------------- 1 The Story So Far 3 How To Play 6 Spells and Shops 8 Features Trouble Shooting If you have followd all the instructions and still have trouble loading this cartridge telephone (416) 470 2515 THE STORY --------- BigNose: The Story So Far... On their tiny prehistoric island, a whole village is starving and Thanksgiving is only a few days away! All the big game animals have left - they don't want to be hunted any more, and the cave clans are getting tired of eating lettuce. Bignose had heard a legend about a long forgotten peanut butter mine on the island, and he went off in search of it one warm sunny morning. He hadn't got far when an enormous pterodactyl flew high overhead... "WOW! If I could catch that there big birdy then all the people in the village would have enough food for a great Thanksgiving! Forget the peanut butter mine - we're gonna have a roast birdy!" And so Bignose set out on a hunting adventure which will take him over four islands, through perilous caves and even up into the sky! HOW TO PLAY ----------- Part of the controller and how to use them... LEFT - Move left RIGHT - Move right A BUTTON - Jump/hold down to go higher B BUTTON - Swing club/Throw stones SELECT - Status Screen START - Pause How to play Bignose The Caveman Bignose starts the game with just three lives and his neanderthal club. Bignose should be very careful not to touch any of the small animals that populate the island - they can all kill him instantly. Bignose's Club Watch out for the three rocks icon. When Bignose picks this up he can use his club just like a baseball bat to launch rocks at his enemies. If Bignose touches the wildlife while carrying stones, he'll survive the attack but the shock will make him drop them. If he's not carrying stones then... KAPUT! Bones and Shops Pick up any bones that you may find along the way - they can be exchanged in the hidden shops for weapons, magical powers and even bonus lives. Hidden Features Bignose can smash rocks with his club to reveal hidden objects - doing this can often be rewarding. Some rocks need to be hit more than once. (Picture of a Triceratops) SPIKE SPELLS ------ The hidden shops... Bignose will have to look hard to find the shops - remember, billboards weren't invented back then! SUPER-POWERFUL WEAPONS can be bought, as well as BONUS LIVES and MAGIC SPELLS. Try a Fast Club to improve your clubbing action, or Double Stones for a twin shot capability. The status screen Once spells have been bought, you'll need to choose when to use them. When you need a spell, press SELECT to call up the STATUS SCREEN, and then use UP and DOWN to choose what to use. Press A or B to use it, and then START to carry on with the game. Powers and Spells Special powers and spells usually last until the end of stage or until Bignose loses a life and are often best kept for use against the BIG BOSS MONSTERS at the end of each level. FEATURES -------- Extras, bonuses and surprises Explore very carefully! The whole game is jampacked with hidden levels, bonuses and extra features, but none of them will be easy to find! HINT: If Bignose should fall off a cliff, he can learn the best route to pick up the most bones! Swap hints and tips with your friends and see who can find the most hidden features! The Big Boss Monsters At the end of each level you'll meet a BIG, BAD AND VERY NASTY BIG MONSTER... you'll have to be very cunning and agile to beat them, but it can be done. (Picture of a scorpion) STINGER (Picture of a pterodactyl) ORVILLE Flying Bignose uses his club as a helicopter rotor to fly between the islands. Keep pressing your A Button to keep him flying. If you stop to hit a stone he'll lose height quickly, so be careful. Eventually you'll meet our flying friend here and face the ultimate flying challenge. (Picture of a millipede) SQUIRMER This gruesome monster and its brothers and sisters guard the exit to the cave sections of the islands. Be careful when you come up to a section of pillars underground. Although this fiend is quick and deadly, he is very repetitve and always follows the same route so by careful observation, you can beat him. (Picture of a Saber-Tooth Tiger) SABER This Saber tooth tiger can be found in the cold frozen wastes of the high mountains. He used to be Bignoses' pet but he ran away when the food ran out. Now he's gone wild and Bignose will have to beat him to find the bird he's looking for. BIGNOSE WORD SEARCH ------------------- P U V S C O R P I O N Lots of words from Bignose's adventure have X R W S P D E R M L A been hidden in this jumble of letters see how T C E L B I G N O S E many you can find. Z H Q H E N I Y N C X V A A I I O T N S R N T O R Z T S B S T O A U S L K N A T T E L M R I N S L U B O R L E T L Z E A R O N R E V L U C K U N N E S I A E T N O I T O P H O C SOLUTION -------- Tiger, Caveman, Scroll, Monster, Stone, Bignose, Club, Dinosaur, Potion, Volcano, Turtle, Chaos, Prehistoric, Scorpion. CODEMASTERS ----------- Three more CodeMasters game available from Camerica. Micro Machines THE VIDEO GAME This is your chance to experience real life, high speed action scaled down to fantastic miniature. You can race formula one racing cars on a pool table, helicopters around the garden or boats around the bath tub, 11 individual characters and 9 kinds of Micromachines. This game is absolutely brilliant! The fantastic adventures of Dizzy Adventure and challenge; puzzles and clues, 8 completely different lands including underwater and the secret castle in the clouds. Dizzy's search to rescue his friends and defeat the Evil Wizrd Zaks is the most exiting interactive cartoon yet. Quattro Sports - 4 perfect sports simulation game in one cartridge. Baseball Pros, Soccer Simulator, Pro Tennis, BMX Simulator Each of the 4 games in the collection is carefully researched and programmed to be as accurate as possible and to capture the tension and atmosphere of the original sport. About CodeMasters and its young founders David and Richard Darling started writing video games while they were in their early teens and still at school in England. From these beginnings, David and Richard became contract games authors. They wrote games for many major British software houses, and many of them turned out to be run away best sellers. The boys had by then realised that they had a natural talent for coming up with games that people really want to play! David and Richard formed CodeMasters their own company, in October 1986. Within a year CodeMasters was the best selling games software publisher in the UK. Codemasters has dominated UK charts. Over thirty of the worlds best games people work at CodeMasters global headquarters, a 96 acre farm in the heart of rural England. CodeMasters has the resources, the expertise and the drive to bring you the very best in video game entertainment and thats exactly what Richard and David aim to do!