Excerpts from LW.DOC, a demo game supplied with the Euphoria programming language:

 Object of the Game
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 It is the year 2394. The galaxy is dominated by the evil forces of the
 C empire. Programmers' minds are being enslaved to the C language.
 Your objective as commander of the Euphoria is to rid the galaxy of the 50
 C ships and spread euphoria throughout the galaxy. 40 of these evil ships are
 regular (K&R) C ships, 9 are the more powerful ANSI C ships, and a
 single ship, lurking somewhere in the galaxy is the extremely powerful and
 terrifying C++.

 You will encounter other ships in the galaxy as well. These are the BASIC
 ships and the Fortran ships, remnants of previous empires. While it is not
 your prime objective to destroy these ships, they will at times attack you
 and you will want to eliminate them. This is particularly true when they
 threaten friendly bases and planets.

....

 Know Your Enemy
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 BASIC ships are sometimes at TRUCE (bright blue) and will not fire at you
 unless you fire first and break the TRUCE. Sometimes however they will
 spontaneously change to HOSTILE (dark blue) and start firing. The BASIC
 ships have a deadly cloaking device that can make them invisible. When a
 BASIC ship is attacked, all other BASIC ships in the quadrant will fire back
 on the attacker. BASIC ships have torpedos and conventional phasors. They
 only have 2000 units of energy.

 The Fortran ships are very unpredictable and will shoot at anything,
 including other Fortran ships. They can enter a higher dimension that lets
 them travel from any other quadrant in the galaxy and arrive at any point
 in the current quadrant. Their invisible phasors can travel through anything.
 They have 3000 units of energy.

 C ships come in 3 different sizes. All have torpedos and conventional phasors.
 The regular ships have 4000 units of energy and 1 torpedo. A single torpedo
 is just enough to destroy them. A 900-unit phasor from not too far way will
 also do the trick. The ANSI C ships have 8000 units of energy and carry 2
 torpedos. C++ has 20000 units of energy and carries 4 torpedos. C++ has
 a distinctive magenta color and a "double-barrel shotgun" look. Watch out!

....

 The Assembly Language space shuttle
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 When the Euphoria is in imminent danger of running out of energy and being
 destroyed, you can elect to abandon ship and enter the Assembly Language
 shuttle (press '$'). This small craft carries 5000 units of energy and 1
 torpedo deflector. It can dock at a base or a planet for energy. You will get
 a new Euphoria-class ship if you dock with a base.


What a strange game.

:-)

Cheers.

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