PAC Mate Showdown


Copyright Pb-games, 2004. Ported to the PAC Mate by Louis Bryant from BrailleSoft, INC. (c) 2008.


Welcome to Showdown, thank you for downloading this game!
Showdown is a racket sport similar to pong, but not exactly the same. You shoot the ball against your opponent on the table, trying to score. Your opponent (the PAC Mate in this case) tries to defend it's goal hole, if the ball falls into this hole, you score 2 points, the same applies for if the ball falls into your goal hole. If you shoot the ball out of the table, the opponent gets 1 point. If one person gets 11 points or more, that person has won the current set. You play 3 sets, but if it is 2-0 in sets for you or the computer, you don't need to play the third set because there's no chance for the opponent to win the game. 
When the game starts, the PAC Mate randomly selects the person that will serve first. Each person serves 5 times, then it goes to the other person and the other person serves 5 times, continuing back and forth. You move your racket with the left and right arrow keys, and you press the spacebar to hit the ball. To serve the ball, first move your racket to the location where you wish to serve, then use enter to serve the ball. To quit the game at any time, press F1 or escape. To pause the game, press p or move focus away from the Showdown window, and when you are in the real "game" and not in any of the menus, you can press q to go back to the main menu. The q key also works when you've paused the game. To navigate in menus, use the up and down arrow keys. To select an option, press enter.

System requirements:
This game requires the following:
* Any Freedom Scientific PAC Mate or PAC Mate Omni.
* Headphones or speakers (headphones are strongly recommended).
* 11MB of RAM.
* 50MB of storage card or PAC Mate Omni flash space.
* Muting JAWS may make game-play easier, but it doesn't have to be, and it can't be muted on devices without Braille Displays.
* PAC Mate users using firmware 4.1 or lower will need the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework Version 1.0 Service Pack III found at http://www.BrailleSoft.net/software/netframework.cab

Copyright information:
This game is distributed as freeware, wich means that you are allowed to distribute the game how ever you want, over the internet, on a cd, or whatever. You must not, however, change the game in any way, including the sound files, the program in itself, or this documentation. If you distribute the game, you must make clear that you're not the author, you need to inform the users that Pb-games has created this game. I would also be happy if you put in a link to our website, but that's not nesessary.
The crowd sound in this game comes from ljudo.com, an archive with over 1500 free sound effects.

If you want to contact us, feel free to email us at:
philip_bennefall@hotmail.com
If you have questions about the PAC Mate version of the game, email Louis Bryant at louis@BrailleSoft.net.
Or visit our homepage:
http://www.pbsoundscape.net
On the website, you can find more fun games to download and play for Windows.
If you want more PAC Mate games, get them from http://www.BrailleSoft.net/pacmate.htm

Copyright Pb-games, 2004.