Head over Heels

Starting a Game

NOTE To play this game using a controller, select Kempston in the Select Joystick menu.

To navigate Head Over Heels’ menus, press any key to move the cursor down, and press enter, or the select menu item on the controller to select an option.

Gameplay

Head Over Heels puts the player in control of two unique characters, Head and Heels, tasked with finding crowns throughout the Blacktooth empire. You begin the game controlling Head.

Swap between Head and Heels by pressing the Swap character button.

Head

• Can jump much higher than Heels, and can guide himself through the air while falling.
• Can use the ‘Hooter’ when it has been found - a donut launcher which lets Head stun enemies when fired.

Heels

• Can move much faster than Heels
• Can find and equip a bag - allowing Heels to pick up some platforms and drop them in a new position.

Combining

If Head jumps on top of Heels, and they are both facing the same direction, Head and Heels can combine and move as a single character. This combines their abilities, allowing fast movement and greater jumping distance, and use of the bag and Hooter.

To disconnect Head and Heels, swap control to Head and face a different direction to Heels.

Entering some rooms while combined will cause some objects which only Head or Heels can use to disappear - this means the room should be played with the duo disconnected.

When this happens, leave the room and disconnect Head and Heels, then enter and complete the room one at a time to progress.

Interface

1. Number of donuts
2. Hooter - The hooter will change colour when collected by Head.
3. Power-ups (Head)
4. Number of lives (Head)
5. Number of lives (Heels)
6. Power-ups (Heels)
7. Bag indicator - The bag will change colour when collected by Heels.

Items

Hooter

The Hooter can be equipped by Head, and is used to shoot donuts at enemies.

Donut Box

Donut boxes can be found throughout Blacktooth, and serve as ammo for Head’s Hooter launcher.

Bag

The bag can be equipped by Heels, and is used to store platforms and drop them at a later time.

Switch

Move over a switch to activate connected objects

Controllers

Walk in to a controller to move the connected object or enemy around.

Fish

Collect a fish to give Head or Heels an additional life.

Crown

Find and collect a crown to liberate the area of Blacktooth you are currently in. Find all the crowns to liberate the empire!

Spring platforms

Jump from a spring platform to gain an additional jump boost.

Floating Platform

Floating platforms move in fixed directions between connected levels, and can be jumped on by Head or Heels to access new areas.

Teleporter

Teleporters allow the player to move between connected areas of Blacktooth. To use a teleporter, jump on top of it as Head or Heels and jump when it begins spinning.

 Power-ups

Power-ups can be found throughout Blacktooth in the form of a small teddy. Each teddy can grant a different power up

• Lightning power-up (Head): Allows fast movement
• Whirlwind power-up (Heels): Increases jump height, allows air control
• Shield power-up: Grants invulnerability

The duration that a power up lasts can be seen in the bottom left and right-hand sides of the screen (see interface)

Platforms

There are various types of platforms in each room of Head over Heels:

Moveable	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Harmful								X	X	X	X

Platforms that are moveable can be moved by walking into them. They can also be stored in Heels’ bag (if it has been equipped) and dropped at a later time by pressing the carry button when controlling Heels.

Harmful platfoms will cause Head or Heels to lose a life when touched.

Lives

Head and Heels both start with 8 lives, losing one when touched by a hazard or enemy. Extra lives can be obtained by finding fish while exploring Blacktooth.

Story

Head and Heels have been captured, separated and imprisoned in the castle headquarters of Blacktooth. Their cells contain ‘keep fit’ equipment, including a wall ladder that Head really must learn to climb. Your job is to get them both out of the castle and into the market place so they can join up again.

From there, the journey leads to Moonbase Headquaters, where you will have to decide either to try to escape back to Freedom or to be a true hero and teleport to one of the slave planets to search for its lost crown!

To overthrow the dictatorship on any of the slave planets would be a major blow to Blacktooth and you could return to Freedom in glory. Of course Blacktooth would probably enslave them again eventually but it would slow down any expansion plans for now.

The populace of Blacktooth are so heavily oppressed that they would have to see all four of the slave planets revolt before the Blacktooth crown could cause an uprising.

This of course would be the ultimate accolade, and unfortunately, almost certain suicide.