Slipstream (game)

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Slipstream is a game created by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company and hosted on the games website Candystand. The setting of the game is in a vast, metal tunnel with many scattered obstacles. The player plays as a futuristic ship zooming through the tunnel. The object is to avoid as many obstacles as possible.

Slipstream

Slipstream's main menu

Slipstream shown being played Safari 3.
Platform Mac, Windows, requires Adobe Shockwave Player
Available in English
Genre Internet Game
Website Slipstream

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[edit] How to Play

The orange-colored ship must avoid collisions with obstacles ahead of it. There are a variety of obstacles that are included with this game.

Directions: The ↑, ↓, ←, and → keys move the ship in the corresponding directions. The "z" key activates your Vertical Boosters, which basically makes your ship jump. Note: Rapidly pressing the "z" key, once after the last, will keep you up in the air as long as you want.

[edit] Obstacles

Rotating blades: These are the blades that spin around. They are a yellow/black color, and have different designs of holes that your ship can pass through. If you miss the hole and hit the blade, one out of three of your lives are lost.

Green modifiers: These are very helpful throughout the game, multiplying your gate bonus score. There are 3 different types of modifiers — the lightning-style modifiers, or "Power modifiers", which generate a shield around your ship; the x1, x2, and x3 modifiers, which multiply your gate bonus score by the corresponding number; and the toxic icon-style modifier, or "Blackout modifier", which can only be found in Sectors 2 and up. This modifier temporarily shuts off all movement of the obstacles (but not the energy beams; they remain still, but still generate energy).

Purple beams: These are the type of energy beams that move in two ways at the same time. As the opposite generators attach each other with the energy, they spin around the entire tunnel. Simultaneously, the actual beam moves across, from edge to edge, each generator. These beams cut your gate bonus, the points you earn for passing through gates without losing a life, in half.

Red beams: These energy beams will destabilize your ship if you pass through them. Unlike the purple beams, these do only spin the way the blades do; they only rotate around one way.

[edit] Other

The ship that the player drives has a very high speed, which is approximated to be 2,500 miles per hour. The ship takes 1/4 of a second to traverse 1 mile.

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