![]() ![]() If you are killed, either on foot or in your plane, you lose one of the five lives and return to your starting position, but you keep the coins you have collected. Early in the game you can jump into a turbo plane with which you can fly around but you can't touch the platforms, except for the landing pads which are necessary as you have limited fuel and your plane flashes red when you are low. Patrolling the entire area are helicopters that follow random routes around the platforms and must be avoided. Gaps can be jumped over, but you can fall from any height, and low spaces can be traversed with up or down sticks and green buttons that send you to the platform above. You must navigate platforms, some of which move and some of which open and close, while avoiding obstacles that are deadly to the touch. ![]() An evil wizard named Jem has trapped you in the complex and will only let you escape if you ring the bell of Big Ben sealed by a tunnel that can only be opened once 30 gold coins have been collected. The book is richly illustrated, and will appeal not only to clockmakers and horologists, but to bell. The book ends with a detailed technical description of the clock mechanism. ![]() Big Ben is a platformer in which the screen scrolls in multiple directions as you move your hero, Giz, while trying to escape from a Space Complex. The book covers the famous cracking of the current bell Big Ben in 1859, with sketches of all the characters involved, the two world wars, and the disaster of 1976. ![]()
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