Descpription:
The players use shields to defend their castle walls from
the fireballs that ricochet around the playfield. Players can capture and catapult
the fireballs at opposing castles. Fireballs destroy pieces of the castle walls they hit.
The objective of the game is to destroy the three other castles while protecting
one's own castle with the moving shield. When the button is depressed, the shield
can capture a fireball. Release the button and the fireball is catapulted at the opponents.
The spinning fireballs released from a shield have more destructive force on a castle
wall than a fireball simply deflected from another wall or the sides of the playfield.
Fireballs cannot be held long since they slowly destroy the player's own castle walls adjacent
to the fireball. Additional fireballs appear at predetermined intervals or when a castle is destroyed,
whichever comes first. A maximum of four fireballs can simultaneously be in play.
The computer controls all the unpaid castles. In one- and two-player games, if a paid
player has the surviving castle, the game continues with a new battle at a higher level.
