INERTIA is a totally original game with a huge landscape just waiting to be explored.

Scattered (or rather fiendishly placed around the landscape are many special tiles which 
need to be collected. Your highly sensitive craft floats freely around the landscape and 
you must exert forces upon it to guide its speed and direction.

You have a three dimensional viewpoint displaying a tiny fraction of the total playing 
area. There are walls, bridges tunnels and ramps to negotiate and a host of mystery tiles 
with strange properties which include ice, jump and transformation tiles. There are 
certain tiles which alternate the controls so that everything works in reverse!

You must guide your craft over all of the shaded tiles whilst avoiding falling off the 
landscape.

The landscape is made up of a very large number of 3 dimensional varied screens. However, 
as you progress, the going will get very tough. A good memory and/or mapping will be 
needed.

Various icons along the top of the screen depict the sound status, which craft is in 
play, pause on/off, and the current direction of the controls (normal/reversed). The two 
vertical bars at the sides of the playing area slowly fill up, first the left, then the 
right. If a shaded tile has not been collected before the time elapses, then you will 
lose a life. The timer is reset each time a tile is collected.

The panel to the lower left of the playing area shows the number of lives remaining. A 
life is gained for each tile collected, and a maximum of 12 lives is allowed.

The panel to the lower right of the screen gives an indication of the number of tiles 
left to be collected.

Your current score is shown above this. You score five points for each tile collected 
and you lose three points for each life lost.

When you lose a life, you continue the game at the place where you last collected a 
shaded tile or sometimes at the last but one.

The further into the game your craft progresses the more features it will encounter.

Most tiles are easily recognisable:
- Ice: It is important to alter the direction of the craft whilst on this.
- Jump Tiles: The craft is thrown into the air.
- Checkered Tiles: The craft loses control of its brakes.
- Vertically Striped Tiles: The craft may only alter its vertical direction.
- Transformation Tiles: These transform  ‚the craft between its two possible states. 
The first, normal craft, is fast and light, but loses control on some surfaces. The 
second, smaller craft, is slower and heavier, but retains control on most surfaces.
- Direction Squares: These swap the control keys - left becomes right, up becomes down, 
etc.

By D. Postlethwaite
Game Controls: Z - Left, X - Right, * - Up, ? - Down
TAB - Lose a life, S - Sound on, Q - Sound off, P - Pause/Continue