You control a bouncing tennis ball which bounces along a scrolling landscape.

Gremlin, like most companies, include cheat modes in its games - they're just a little bit more difficult to access. This program Pokes the word 'Bouncy' into the printer buffer. The program detects this and changes the scrolling messages accordingly. Wait until the message gets to where it will say "Cheat Mode" and prepare for a shock. Whatever you do, DON'T turn your computer off at this point. If this doesn't work on your version of the game, you can get the same effect by POKE 23296,12 before you load the game, which just happens to be what you get if you XOR all the bytes of the word 'Bouncy' together.

Additional notes: Both of these hacks work on a Spectrum 48k, but Your Sinclair do not explain it much, so I will try to explain things a bit more clearly. For either of these hacks to work, you must wait until the text scrolly on the title screen mentions about the cheat mode. The game will then mysteriously reset back to 48k mode for about a few seconds and the (c) 1982 Sinclair Research Ltd message will magically change to (c) 1986 Gremlin Graphics Ltd. You should then see a "I FOOLED YOU" message appear and scroll across the bottom of the screen. It will then mysteriously return back to the game. You now have infinite lives!

The hack below does exactly the same thing (it gives you infinite lives), but has a typing error which Your Sinclair or Dennis Publishing introduced. Although a correction for this hack was never printed, I have found the cure. In line 100, change the number 178 to 78. It will then work. A fixed verion of this hack with this aforementioned fix can be obtained via the download link below.

Click here to download this hack (TAP format) or Click here to download this hack (TZX format).

10 LET CS=0 : FOR N=23296 TO 23301
20 READ A : LET CS=CS+A
30 POKE N,A : NEXT N
40 IF CS<>464 THEN PRINT "ERROR" : STOP
50 LOAD ""
100 DATA 66,79,85,178,67,89

Multiface Poke

Infinite lives: 36610,0