Peanuts Manual

Welcome, Welcome Baseball Fans! Let’s Get Started! It’s the start of the baseball season and Charlie Brown needs 5 more players to complete his baseball team. He needs your help to recruit the players and help him organize his team. Solve puzzles and play mini-games along the way. Once the players are recruited, you are ready to play the Big Baseball Game! If you want to skip the adventure and go straight to the Big Game, click on the baseball glove option when starting a new game. System Requirements PC: Win 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista (with administrator’s rights), Pentium III or higher, min. 450 MHz, 128 MB RAM, SVGA-graphic card (32 bit), sound card, CD-ROM-drive (8x-speed), min. 60 MB free hard disc space. MAC: Power MAC from G4, MAC OS 9,OS X (10.1.2. or higher), 450 MHz, 128 MB RAM, graphic card (16,7mln. colors), sound card, CD-ROM-drive (8x-speed). Installation Insert the CD into the CD ROM drive and follow the onscreen prompts. The installation menu will open automatically if the “Auto Play” function of your computer is active. If this function is disabled, then open My Computer, select your CD drive and double-click on the “Setup.exe” file. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation. Main Menu There are four options in the main menu. - New – Click here to start a brand new game. You will be prompted to name the game (see below). You will have two choices. Clicking on the baseball glove will allow you to go straight to the Big Game. Clicking on Snoopy will allow you to help Charlie Brown recruit players for his baseball team (see below). When starting the game for the first time you can only start a new game, because there are not any saved games to load. - Load – Click here to load any saved game. - Quit – Click here to quit playing. Two Snoopys will show up on the screen. Click the Snoopy on the left to select YES, Click the Snoopy on the right to select NO. - Resume – Click here to return to the game you were playing. Gameplay Menu Bar Found in the lower left hand corner of the screen, there are four options. Main Menu – Click on Charlie Brown Help – Click on Woodstock. Sound – Click on Schroeder. Pause – Click on Snoopy. Story Mode Game Structure The purpose of the Story Mode game is to recruit the five missing members of Charlie Brown’s baseball team – Linus, Lucy, Pig-Pen, Schroeder and Peppermint Patty. To do so, the player must find each character and then solve three puzzles/games for each of them. Before a character can be recruited, they must be found. The player controls Charlie Brown as he explores the Peanuts’ neighborhood, interacting with the characters in order to recruit them. Social puzzle: Each character has a set of social conditions that must be fulfilled for them to be recruited. Conditions include: a certain character must be following Charlie Brown, a character or a number of characters must be recruited to the team, a character must not be on the screen with the character that is being…