Appendix F — Glossary

One word for each idea, used the same way everywhere in the game and in this book.

bomb: The screen-clearing weapon the Fighter carries (up to 5)
bonus points: The points a count pickup gives instead when its count is already at its most (Pickups bonusPoints)
cloud: One of the four drifting clouds; the High Cloud passes over everything
enemy: Any enemy aircraft: Zero Fighter, Red Ace, Dive Bomber, Heavy Bomber, Sky Fortress
escort: A Zero Fighter sent in by the Sky Fortress in Phase 2
Fighter: The plane the player flies
formation: How a group of enemies arrives: V, column, row, side sweep
Game Rules: The Object that owns score, medkits, bombs, the Mission Timeline, winning and losing
gun level: 1 to 4: how many rounds each volley has (the power pips)
health: How many hits shoot an enemy down (Enemy Types), the Sky Fortress’s included
high score: The best score on this device (Persistent Value “highScore”)
medkit: One of the Fighter’s lives; up to 5, shown as medkit icons
meter: The hits an enemy has taken so far (its Meter with Thresholds)
mission: One play from START MISSION to MISSION COMPLETE or GAME OVER
mission time: Seconds of play since the mission started, pauses not counted ($missionTime, counted by Mission Clock)
Mission Timeline: The Data Table of what arrives when, by mission time
object (a column): The Object a Data Table row names: in the Mission Timeline what arrives (an enemy, or a supply drop’s pickup), in Pickups the kind’s pickup Object
phase: One of the Sky Fortress’s two attack patterns; Phase 2 is “enraged”
pickup: Something the Fighter collects: Power Up, Spread Shot, Rapid Guns, Bomb Crate, Medkit; its Object name ends in “Pickup”
popup: The words that rise from a collected pickup and say what it gave: its own words, or at its most the bonus points (“+1500”); shown by Show the Reward
protection: The Fighter’s short time after a hit, a bomb, or the start in which nothing can hurt it, shown by blinking
round: Anything a gun fires: MG Round, Spread Round, Rapid Round, Enemy Round
sea scenery: The islands and ships on the ocean
shadow: The dark copy of a plane or cloud below and to the right of it
shell: A round fired by the Sky Fortress
shot down: What happens to an enemy whose health runs out
Sky Fortress: The enemy at the end of the mission
supply drop: A pickup that arrives on the Mission Timeline, not from a shot-down enemy
volley: The rounds one press of the trigger fires together
wave: One of the mission’s four parts (WAVE 1 to WAVE 4), each with a banner
weapon: What the Fighter fires: Machine Guns, Spread Shot or Rapid Guns