Insaniquarium Deluxe Raise your virtual fish.

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Insaniquarium is an action/simulation game. Basically, you have a fish tank, where you feed your fish to gain money to afford upgrades. Also Aliens come to eat your fish, so you must defend them by shooting said aliens. With eneough money, you can buy egg pieces, once you gain 3, you can get pets. But thats getting ahead of myself.

 

There are different modes of playing insaniquarium also.

 

Adventure - Feed your pets, defeat aliens and unlock new Pets to help you on later levels. (4 different tanks, each with 5 levels)

 

Time Trial - Try and gain as much money as possible.Withen 5-10 minutes. 5% of that score goes to your virtual tank. (*)

 

Challenge - This mode is quite like adventure, but the prices go higher by 10% (of base price) every few seconds on all upgrades. Buy 3 Egg pieces to win. (this mode is only unlocked after defeating adventure mode)

 

Virtual Tank - This mode is quite relaxing infact. You raise fish as you would in real life. Though they do drop money still, its more realiastic since you only have to feed your fish 3 times a day to keep them happy. There is a store where you can buy fish to add to your virtual tank which changes based on you computer clock. Every day has a different stock of fish.

 

[sandbox] - This is a secret mode you can only enter after you obtain the silver trophy (*). This is also unlocked by imputting "the konami" code on the main screen.

 

(up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A)

 

With a press of a button, anything in the game can be added to your tank. A very fun way to test senarios.

 

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Feeding Fish

Ok, to feed a fish, just (left) click anywere on the screen (with nothing blocking it) and food with start to sink to the bottem of the screen. Hungry fish with go after the food, and eat it. Food is not free also, it costs $5 to drop 1 piece of food. Don't waste your food. Food also goes away as soon as it touches the bottem of your tank.

 

Tip : Drop food near the top of the screen to allow long "drop time".

 

Fighting aliens

To shoot an alien, basically you gotta keep clicking on the alien until its dead (some aliens are different, but thats later) These aliens will eat your fish if your not careful. So you must "steer" the aliens away from your fish. Like if you shoot the top of the alien, it was "swim" down, and vice versa.

 

Pets

At the begining of the game, you can bring 3 pets with you. Pets are different then your regular fish, like they can't be eat by aliens, and don't need it be feed, but pets with give you helpful abilitys to finish each level. In adventure, to complete a level you must buy 3 "egg pieces". When the egg hatchs out comes a pet.

 

Different types of fish

There are a few different types of fish in this game.

 

Guppy

King Guppy

Carnivore

Star dropping fish

Star Catcher

Guppy Cruncher

Beetle Muncher

Breeder

Ultravore

 

Also one of the most coolest thing is, since we are dealing with a fishtank, it had to become a screen saver. And ofcourse, there is a screen saver mode. It uses your most recent save of your Virtual Tank. Your fish that you bought now swim around while you gather money while you aren't around.

 

Official site for Insaniquarium - clicky

Insaniquarium Guide - clicky

 

Minumum System requirments:

Win 98/ME/2000/XP

350MHz processor

128MB RAM

16-bit Graphics Support and Sound Card

DirectX 7.0

 

Insaniquarium Deluxe, © 2002-2004 PopCap Games, Inc.

 

Written by Flying Bear Entertainment, and published by Pop Cap Inc