
           SOME INSTRUCTIONS TO HELP YOU ON YOUR MERRY WAY!
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                     ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A
                     VERY POOR FAMILY,THEY WHERE
                     SO POOR THAT THEY COULD NOT
                      BUY ANYTHING FOR THEIR TWO
                      CHILDREN FOR CHRISTMAS...

                      THEN ONE NIGHT JUST A FEW
                        DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS
                      THERE CAME A STRANGE SOUND
                       FROM THE VERY TOP OF THE
                          CHRISTMAS TREE....

                      THE TREE FAIRY HAD AN IDEA
                       AND WITH A SHAKE OF HER
                     MAGIC WAND,SPRINKLED ONE OF
                       THE CHRISTMAS TREE BALLS
                       WITH HER FAIRY DUST....

                       THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN,THE
                         BALL CAME ALIVE.....

                       THE FAIRY TOLD THE BALL
                        THAT HIS NAME WOULD BE
                       BERT,BERT THE CHRISTMAS
                       TREE BALL AND HE MUST GO
                        TO THE SECRET WORLD OF
                       SWEETS AND PRESENTS AND
                        COLLECT AS MANY SWEETS
                        AND PRESENTS AS HE CAN
                       AND BRING THEM BACK FOR
                       THE CHILDREN TO HAVE ON
                        CHRISTMAS MORNING!....

                      AND WITH ANOTHER SHAKE OF
                       HER MAGIC WAND,BERT WAS
                       WISKED OFF TO THE WORLD
                      OF SWEETS AND PRESENTS...

                         LITTLE DID BERT KNOW
                        THIS WAS ONLY JUST THE
                      START OF HIS ADVENTURES..


                          GAME INSTRUCTIONS
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                        ON EACH OF THE LEVELS
                        COLLECT ALL THE SWEETS
                       AND PRESENTS,CLOCKS AND
                         POTIONS CAN GIVE YOU
                       EXTRA TIME AND ENERGY..

                         PULLING DOWN ON THE
                        JOYSTICK WHILE FALLING
                         WILL MAKE YOU BOUNCE
                         HIGHER,PULLING DOWN
                         WHILE GOING UP WILL
                        DEADEN YOUR BOUNCE...

                        PRESSING THE P KEY ON
                         THE KEYBOARD PAUSES
                         THE GAME AND FIRE ON
                        THE JOYSTICK RESTARTS
                          THE GAME AGAIN....


                         SOME IMPORTANT INFO
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                        THIS GAME WAS PRODUCED
                        USING AMOS PRO AND THE
                        AMOS PRO COMPILER WITH
                     NO OTHER AMOS EXTENSIONS...

                             GAME DESIGN
                            MALCOLM LAVERY

                              GAME CODE
                            MALCOLM LAVERY

                            GAME SOUND FX
                            MALCOLM LAVERY

                           GAME MUSIC REMIX
                            MALCOLM LAVERY


