Menace Beach FAQ/Walkthrough
                             For the Nintendo NES
                             Written by Pseudonym
                                  Version 1.0
                          Email: shdwswrm@hotmail.com
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Table of Contents
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Revision History
Copyright
FAQ
Introduction
Walkthrough
Closing

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Revision History
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September 15th, 2005
Version 1.1

Completed the walkthrough up to stage 3. Cleaned up the entire guide.

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Copyright
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Copyright 2005 Tim Courchene aka Pseudonym. All rights reserved.

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FAQ
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Q: Where would you find this game? 

A: Ebay would be the quickest choice since this game is rather rare.

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Introduction
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Menace Beach is a rather odd game known, by those who have played it, to have 
quirky enemies and questionable intermission scenes involving a girl and her 
slowly disappearing clothes. If you have any suggestions, comments, or 
constructive criticism, please email me at <shdwswrm@hotmail.com> with the 
heading Contra. All flames, threats, childish comments, etc. will be deleted 
and you're email address filtered.

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Game Basics
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Controls
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Start Button: Pauses the game.

Select Button: Not used.

A Button: Jump.

B Button: Punch.

Directional Pad: Moves your character.

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Walkthrough
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Stage 1
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"One day..."

"Sorry babe, it looks like our little date at the malt shop has been postponed. 
It seems I'm all tied up at the moment. Please help me out here, or <you'll see 
my bad side."

You start the game beside an oddly shaped house with the worst paint job I’ve 
ever seen. Who's ever heard of a blue house with a green door. Unspeakable I'd 
say. Head right and at the right end of the blue house, a ninja will pop out. 
Grab one of the bottles the person is tossing out the window and bean the ninja
with it to kill him. Now jump over the boxes and the hole, and when you come to 
another set of houses, you should grab another bottle from the guy dropping 
them from his window. Use it to clock the ninja hanging around on the roof. 

Right after that is another fire hydrant which you can use to get the heart on 
the roof, just watch out for the clown with the balloon, dropping bombs on 
people under him. It's best to just ignore him and move on. Now, go back and 
grab one last bottle and take it to the green house at the far right. A ninja 
will be there waiting for you, so chuck the bottle at him, and jump over the
boxes a little past the green house. You're in the clear now, all you have to 
do is continue to the right and you'll finish the stage. Yippee!


Stage 2
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"Meanwhile at Demon Dan's."

"Rescue me you little twit! My wrists are chafing, and I've already broken a 
nail. Prove to me you're a real man by getting me out of here."

Now you're inside someone's house which coincidentally look more like a 
bathroom (or a sewer) than anything else. There's also a lot of other stuff on 
the screen at the start (a light switch, and two spinners), but it's all 
useless in my opinion, so head right, jump over the springboard, and quickly 
move by the proximity mine until you see the big, new thing in enemies: a 
sewer-dwelling Elvis impersonator. Heh. Kill him, and then jump on the spring 
to get on the pipe above. 

Go left and either jump on the Frog hopping around or the spring at the left 
end of the pipe to get the heart. Now, go right again and jump on the 
springboard to land on the pipe to the right. Jump over the spinner on the 
ground, and keep going until you see a gap in the pipe above you. Use the 
springboard nearby to get up there, then the other springboard to get to the 
top. Now go all the way to the left and grab the extra life at the edge, just 
don't touch the spinner nearby or you'll get knocked off the pipe. 

Either way go right again until you see another Elvis impersonator. Kill him 
and continue right, but there'll be a dead-end over there. The only way to
get to that pipe ledge is to use the springboard that’s in the air to catapult 
yourself to the pipe above, then jump off to the pipe you were trying to get 
to. Now, jump on the springboard to get across the water, just don't fall into 
the water, or you'll lose a life. It's kind of tricky how the springboard 
works, especially since you're going across quite a bit of water, but this tip 
should help you out. 

You need forward momentum to cross the water, so bounce once, then press
right and you should fly across to the other side. There's more springboards to 
greet you on the other side of the water and a spinner at the top, so don't hit 
it or you'll go flying into the water. Once you've made it to the top, you 
should see another Elvis impersonator, so jump down, grab a wrench, and toss it 
at him for an easy kill. Now, all you have to do is go to the right and you've 
completed another stage.


Stage 3
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"Meanwhile at Demon Dan's"

"I hope you can do better than that, shrimp. I've been here so long my clothes 
are starting to rot. Now quit being so wimpy and get me outta here!"

Damn, with a girlfriend like her, you don't need enemies. Especially the weird 
enemies inhabiting this game. Two Ninjas will appear right at the beginning, 
both of them on boxes to the right of you. Don't go up to them though, wait for 
them to come to you, that way you can beat them up one at a time, or if you're 
impatient, run up to one of them and beat him up quickly, then move onto the 
other one. After you kill them, head right but NOT too far, just up to the 
manhole near the blue house. 

Wait for the guy in the sewer to give you a balloon, then just float to the 
roof of the next house and stay up there, where you'll see the ugliest enemy in 
video game history - an nearly naked Sumo-Wrestler. Heh. Anyway, the idea here 
is to just wait for the Sumo-Wrestler to run into one of the bombs that are 
being thrown around, so he'll explode into pixilated chunked and you can move 
on. Stay on the roof and get the heart on the other side of the house, then 
fall to the ground and kill the Ninja waiting around for you. 

Now, jump across the large hole to the right (you can make it, you just have to 
time your jump). Continue over the set of boxes ahead of you, then the other 
set, but try to grab a bottle from one of the guys in the sewer before you go.
Now, take the bottle and use it on the Ninja ahead, then go back and grab 
another bottle and use it on the Ninja near the blue house, then another one to 
use on the Ninja near the green house. 

After you kill the Ninja near the green house, go back to where the Clown with 
the balloon was and mug it for it's balloon. Take it to far right, where the 
second Sumo-Wrestler is and stay on the roof of the building there until it's 
killed by the bombs. There will be another Sumo Wrestler ahead and seemingly
no easy way to kill him but there's always a way! Jump over him and wait by one 
of the manholes for a balloon. Take it to the roof of the house and wait for 
this Sumo Wrestler to run into a bomb. All that remains now is to cross the 
hole ahead. Grab one of the balloons and take it across to finish the stage.


Stage 4
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To be completed.

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Closing
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Final Comments
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Goodbye. It's been fun writing this thing for you all. Well, not really, but I 
had to have something nice to say since this guide is almost at the end. Heh. 
Just kidding. If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, praise or 
criticism, they should be sent to <shdwswrm@hotmail.com>. If you're planning on 
using this guide for your site, I'd appreciate it if you emailed me first.


Credits
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American Video Inc. for this odd and entertaining game.

Pepsi and Mountain Dew for keeping me awake while I'm writing.

And thank you for reading.

Anyone else who contributes will get a nifty spot here, so don't delay, 
contribute today!

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