Welcome to Compact. What you are looking at is a cassette player, which is your controller.
There should be six buttons at the top of the cassette player. Eject, cue, review, stop, play and record.
You should ignore the eject and review button. The point of the game is to go through a story where the narrator tells you to press the cue button
and you must press the button in time or else you lose the game.
If you lose, simply press the stop button, then press the review button, then hit the stop button again when the cassette stops spinning.
If you choose to try again, simply press play.
Now, here is the first test. I will count to three and on go. I want you to hit the cue button.
Do not hold the cue button, but make sure to press the cue button all the way.
Ready? Three, two, one, go.
Oh hey, you did it.
Stop, play and do not hold the cue button, but make sure to press the cue button all the way.
Ready? Three, two, one, go.
Ah, you failed.
Now, here is the first test.
I will count to three and on go. I want you to hit the cue button.
Do not hold the cue button, but make sure to press the cue button all the way.
Ready? Three, two, one, go.
Oh hey, you did it.
Now, you are ready to begin combat.
You are a quiet but spunky gender neutral human being who recently moved into a new location where you do not speak their language.
With no job, the only money you have will last you only a month or two in your condo.
You are trying to find a place to work. You look high and low, but no one wants to hire you.
Crest fallen, you ride your bike back home.
While crossing the street, you find a swanky burger place that is filled with angry people.
Everyone, raging over the slow service, you just hop off your bike and run towards the burger place.
Quickly, press the cue button now to open the door.
Oh hey, you did it. You bust open the door and you ran in.
Crowds of people are shouting, you see this pathetic chef barely holding his own.
You hop over the railing and see the burger patties fully cooked, but the chef is too preoccupied to put them on the plate.
With haste, you steal the chef's bachelor.
Now, press the cue button every time I say flip.
Ready? Flip, flip, flip, flip.
Oh hey, you did it. You flipped all four patties off the grill and onto a safe, clean plate.
It wasn't over yet. Suddenly, you slipped on the puddle and hit your head on the floor.
Your vision blurred only seeing the tiny values of the soon-falling patties that you tried to catch them.
The fall was really rough and you can't see clearly. Listen to the sounds of the patties.
Won't you hear a loud whoosh? That means a patty is near for you to catch.
Listen carefully and press the cue button when you think it's time.
Oh hey, you caught it. Here comes the next one.
One more whoosh.
Oh, hey, you caught it!
Roosh!
Oh, hey, you caught it! Congrats! You got all four patties!
You jumped up and finished making the burgers
and gave these delicious sandwiches to the four angry raging customers.
If it wasn't for you, the restaurant would have closed down.
Suddenly, you feel a slight ache in your chest.
You hear the people speaking, but you can't comprehend the language.
These things feel as if you feel like something's commiting within yourself.
This unbearable pain, you collapse.
You wake up to a familiar place.
You are at home, not a place where you were at the beginning of the story, but where you came from.
You see black streaks of tape crossed over your chest.
This feeling you have of being in a place where you came from before should feel positive.
When you feel sad and moved right away from where you were born
because you felt like there was some place out there where you can finally fit in
and you swore that burger place was the beginning.
But the world does not allow you to go anywhere, you please.
Some people just skip differently than others.
No one surely knows who you are.
That was so cool.
I'm surprised you didn't fail.
Was there other recordings?
Well, it only lasted a month or two in your condo. You're trying to find a place to work.
That's fallen. You ride your bike.
Swanky burger place that is filled with angry people.
Over the slow service, you hop off your bike and run towards the burger place.
Quickly, press the Q button now to open the door.
You don't press it.
You ran into the door.
So, you can lose.
Interesting.
That's so cool.
