PETSCII Panic!

A lawn-defense game for the Commodore 64, written in C64 BASIC using only PETSCII graphics

🧟 Hold the lawn against 6 waves of zombies

⚖️ 3 difficulty levels and 3 types of zombie brutes

🕹️ Move and select with the joystick and fire button or W,A,S,D keys and SPACE

🪴Choose seeds with 1-4 in both modes

Key	Plant	Sun	Notes
1	Peashooter	100	Shoots a pea in its lane
2	Sunflower	50	Makes more sun
3	Wall-nut	50	Blocks zombies by being bitten
4	Cherry Bomb	150	Clears a 3x3 area

💨 Each lane has one lawnmower which clears all zombies in it's lane when touched.

💀 If a zombie gets to the end of a lane its GAME OVER!

Tips

• Sun arrives on its own, slower on harder difficulty levels. The meter on the top row fills up before each yield, and sunflowers make every yield bigger.
• In the seed bar, white means ready, gray means recharging, and red means not enough sun.
• Multiple peashooters in a lane, still shoot one pea, but they're harder-hitting.
• The bottom row shows the incoming zombies left in the wave by color.
  Dim heads are still coming, bright ones are on the lawn.
• The cherry bomb costs more on harder modes - 150 on Easy, 175 on Normal, and 200 on Hard.

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