Philips Magnavox Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution Trigger Happy - Manual (Page 338)

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Fig. 20. G-Police: the information superhighway (‰ 1997 Sony
Computer Entertainment)
Look at the screen. Top right is a number
surrounded by a segmented, shaded ring. The number, a
symbol, denotes the “health” of your gunship: when it
reaches zero, the craft is destroyed. Similarly, the
words at bottom right are symbols for the available
weapons. But most of the gameplayer’s information is
also provided indexically: the shaded parts around the
health number vanish in strict ratio to the decreasing
number, with an overlaid symbolic order of rainbow
color, whereby green denotes maximum health,