Tommy's Floppy Discus

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Tommy's Toys

Tommy's Toys was a company that produced over 200 shareware games between 1985 and 1998. All of the games were written in QuickBasic and were designed to run in DOS. It was a one man operation where all the games were developed by T. L. Winslow who stopped making games in 1998 to start a new career as a novelist. The company was known for its tag line "Tommy's Toys - Programmed by Aliens from Outer Space".

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This program is the answer to the joke, "what olympic event has been reserved for computer programmers?" (ans. The floppy discus throw) To control your floppy discus, use the 4 arrow keys on the numeric key pad.
You must keep your discus away from the hammers and try to rack up a score at the same time.
To score, your discus must hit the leftmost or rightmost column on the screen.
If you hit a blank space, 1 point is deducted from your score.
If you hit a white gorilla ball, you gain 10 points; if you hit a black gorilla ball, you lose 10 points. Hitting any of the other characters scores 1 point.
Every time you bounce off the left or right side of the screen, the scoring targets are changed and the timer (displayed on the bottom line of the screen) is decremented: when the timer counts down to zero, another hammer is added to the screen, up to a maximum of 9.