This is death. Stay away from death. Basically if instant death touches you, you die. One of the most useful ways to kill an opponent is to knock him into one of these death bubbles. Death can be useful to dodge opponents also. You can run underneath a death when a opponent is chasing you, giving you sometime to move to a safer location or gain a weapon for defense. When you win a round, be aware...Once your opponent dies you will freeze in a victory position for a few seconds. If a death hits you while you are doing your victory position there is nothing you can do about it. The round then becomes a tie. So when you win be aware of approaching deaths.
This is what the game calls "1000 volts", we call it "lightning or electricity"...It is probably the most useful weapon in this game. Once you get electricity your fighter will seem to turn electrified so to speak. This gives you the ability to destroy your opponent when you touch him. If your opponent has 1000 volts and you dont your options are limited. It is difficult...but you can escape death. You need to obviously stay as far away as possible. If you get a 1000 volts of your own you will be able to counter your opponent's. Mines and cloaks are very useful when being chased by a opponent with 1000 volts, you can lay mines in his path to delay, and use cloaks to escape dangerous situations. 
This is a gun. It is good to have, and it is not good when your opponent has it. It shoots a straight shot across the screen, and if you hit your opponent he will disintigrate. You get 5 shots. Bullets are fairly easy to avoid. Basically you can just duck to avoid a bullet. When your opponent has a gun it is smart to stay on a different level. The opponent will be preocupied with using his gun to kill you and will not protect himself from melee attacks. When using a gun there is a slight pause once you press the fire button.
This is a cloak. It has its advantages and disadvantages. When you use a cloak, it is wise to have a plan in mind. Once you are cloaked, your opponent cannot see you...but you cant see yourself. Cloaks are useful to get away from opponents with electricity or to get away from dangerous situations.
This is a mine. When you lay a mine you lay it directly in front of you...so don't move forward. When mines are layed the computer will make a beep noise. This will alert your opponent, if he is paying attention he will remember where the mine is. Mines can be useful when being chased by a person with electricity. Also useful when your opponent jumps towards you, you can lay it underneath where he lands and blow him to...well anyway enjoy mines.
This is something we lovingly call, "TNT". It is useless in most ways. You cannot collect it as a weapon. It will not kill you, it just travels through you. It will roam until it hits a platform (which doesn't take long) and will blow up destroying that section of platform. After a while you may notice that a lot of the platforms are mostly gone. Most of the time though you can just ignore these.
This would be the teleport. One of the more pointless additions in the full version, it will put you randomly
in any place in the arena even if there is no floor underneath it. Obviously this can be a great escape tactic at times when you enemy has 1000 volts, but be warned, it can be fatal when there is little land to walk on. Sometimes it will teleport you directly into your enemy. After going through a teleport you will lose any other powerup that you had previously.
The parachute is an interesting melee weapon. (See battle variations) Your parachute can be opened during any fall, it will slow your fall, and allow you to control the direction of your fall. This is useful in many ways. You can constantly attack your enemy without the worry of falling into the pit. Once you bounce off anything (wall, enemy) you can activate the parachute to make sure you don't fly uncontrollably into the pit.
Ahh the nuke puck. This when thrown will slide along the ground and when it hits your enemy it acts like a mine by blasting your enemy off the screen. It does not bounce off walls so it dissapears of the screen when it reaches the end.
When it falls off a platform it will fall diagonally and continue on whatever platform is below. When there is 1 space between platforms that a puck is sliding over it will continue through the platforms and will not fall. The nuke puck also destroys any mine that it slides over, this is a good way of clearing your path of mines.
The hook is useful form of transportation. It is not very useful for eliminating your enemy. When you use the hook you need to be in midair, and you need to be under control (meaning you didn't just bounce off a person or wall), you will hook onto any platform in your path, and this will send you flying up to a higher level or just send you flying. You can do this repeatedly when going directly up. You can also grab onto poles if you time it just right though this doesn't really help you.
Turbo jump, this basically enables you to jump a lot higher and farther when pressing your special key. This can help you get away, and is just plain interesting. Though it can be fatal because of a deadly glitch (see glitches section).
Ahhhh Grenade...almost as useless as TNT, except its more interesting. You thor wit using the special key, it goes a specific distance, about a few blocks ahead of you, and about 1 level height in the air and just destroys the ground that it hits. It does not kill your opponent, the only way you can kill your opponent is too blow up the ground underneath them causing them to fall in the pit...this will never happen, and if it does then it was an accident.
Melee is very simple. Just don't use any weapons. Yes, you heard me. You're probably wondering how on earth(or mars, depending on your mental health) you're supposed to kill you opponent. That's very simple. You try to knock your opponent into ether the pit or a death. Sound's boring? It's not. This is the most fun type of play. And I've been playing this game for 2 years. If you wish cloaks or even mines can be allowed. Learn some strategies in the (duh)strategies sections.
All you do in this one is climb up and down the main pole getting powerups, avoiding deaths and waiting for TNTs to blow up the whole arena. This is just somthing to do if you have too much spare time on your hands. After all the platforms are destroyed jump in the pit at the same time. This gets really boring after the first time you succeed. For a real chalange play as both characters at the same time.
As you can probably guess, we really have nothing better to do with our time. So we created a little game where you start by going all the way to the top floor and then race to see who can kill themselves first. Most of the time this means you try to get to the marshmallow pit as fast as possible but sometimes a death appears which is quicker. Kind of pointless but it is funny when you get to laugh at your opponent and say, "HAHA! YOU WON!"(and similar insanities.)
