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---------------------------- [BOOKYMAN FAQ/WALKTHROUGH] -----------------------
---------------------------------[by Ice Queen Zero]---------------------------
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      INTRODUCTION
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A ripoff of Crush Roller, you control a beetle who upon looking at the title
screen was supposed to be a rat. You go around 8 real rounds (starting from 0)
of trying to paint the whole level without being caught.

It is also part of the 6-in-1 compilation game by Caltron/Myriad.

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       DISCLAIMER
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Bookyman and its characters are trademarks of Mega Soft and all copyrights 
belong to them.

This FAQ/Walkthrough is the sole copyright of Andrea "Azul Fria" Castillo aka
Ice Queen Zero (or the Zophar Queen if you prefer) and cannot be put on other
sites or posted without my given permission nor can it be reproduced w/o proper
consent.

For more guides by myself visit this link:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/74803.html

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        STORY
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You play as cockroach although you are led to believe by the title screen that
you are playing as a rat and you are to run over each course of the levels.

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       CONTROLS
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D-pad: move around
Start: pause

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       SCORING
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You gets points by rolling over enemies with the sliding brushes and collecting
creatures who walk all over the paint. When the whole area is fully painted and
that includes covering up the footprints, then the time left on the timer is
tallied and added to you score. 

Don't let the score confuse you. It counts from the bottom up instead of left
to right so 14 for example would look like this:

0
0
0
0
0
1
4

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        GAMEPLAY
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There really is no big strategy except to avoid the yellow and blue enemies as
you race around the maze and color every part of it.

Ocassionally, creatures will come in and jack up the paint job with their foot
prints. Catch them for points and paint over their prints to complete the level
fully.

The enemies are super smart. If you played Pacman and I am really sure that
everybody in their life has, then you should know that the yellow enemy behaves
like Blinky who chases you endlessly. The blue enemy behaves like Pinky who'll
try to cut you off at the past. They both act like Inky when you are near one
of the sliding brushes by running away when confronting it  and the creatures 
who mess up your paint job act like Sue, who just move all around the place and
don't even care for anything.

Also like Pacman games, you can go out one side and reappear from the opposite
end. The enemies can do that too so be extra careful about that. They do have a
slight weakness, if you get them to chase you down a horizontal line, they get
slower than you are so you can let go of the controller until you have a good
enough distance then resume when you have a chance.

You get 9 lives at your disposal at the start. You can lose them by touching an
enemy or running out of time. If you are new to this game, expect to lose a lot
of lives because like I said before, these enemies are super smart. I got to
give mad props to whoever programmed the AI for this game. Ti ji ji ^v^

There are 8 levels before it resets at Level 0. Meaning, you start the game at
level 0 then it will count up to 7. It resets to 0 after being level 7 so you
should consider beating level 7 as technically beating the game.

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        CREDITS
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God almighty for he created everything you see before us.

MegaSoft for originally creating the game.

NTDEC for Publishing it.

You for reading.

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      CONTACT ME
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azulfria[at]hotmail[dot]com 
[at] = @ and [dot] = .
Don't want any email bots.

You can also find me at Zophar.net updating the emus on console so you can buzz
me there if you have an account. http://www.zophar.net/forums/member.php?u=2683

Here is my Youtube account I share with my sisters. 
http://www.youtube.com/user/PurrfectTrio

Thank you for reading

-Ice Queen Zero