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 one misses the hole and hits the blade, one out of three of his/her lives are lost.
Green modifiers: These are very helpful throughout the game, multiplying the player's gate bonus score. There are 3 different types of modifiers — the lightning-style modifiers, or "Power modifiers," which generate a shield around the player's ship; the x1, x2, and x3 modifiers, which multiply the player's 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.
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. These beams cut the player's gate bonus, the points he/she earns for passing through gates without losing a life, in half.
Red beams: These energy beams will destabilize one's ship if the player passes through them. Unlike the purple beams, these only spin the way the blades do; they only rotate around one way.
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Famous quotes containing the word obstacles:
“It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount. It is true we may come to a perpendicular precipice, but we need not jump off, nor run our heads against it. A man may jump down his own cellar stairs, or dash his brains out against his chimney, if he is mad.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“... there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)