//COMIC STRIP Skip Rico is bragging... AGAIN! Ah, it's lonely being the best salesman on the beach. Lonely?... ...Maybe it's your looks. You're just jealous. Jealous! Yeah! You and your friends only WISH you could compete with the mad sales skills of The Great Ricolini. That's a laugh. Any one of my crew could sell circles around you! Oh! Is that so? OK... ...You're on! One of you can run my Surf Shack for a week. If you measure up to MY sales standards, you can keep what you make. But if you DON'T...then I get it all! You're on!!!! You up for it? Then get ready to take: RICO'S SURF SHOP CHALLENGE Start //CHARACTER SELECTION SCREEN WHO ARE YOU? CLICK TO CHOOSE THE CHARACTER YOU'D LIKE TO PLAY AS MILEY JACKSON LILLY OLIVER //CHARACTER SELECTION SCREEN PERSONAS Miley's bubbling personality and down-home charm can help keep customers from getting annoyed by slow service. Jackson's "every-bro" persona allows him to get the best prices for product stock which can help profits. Lilly's quirky and eccentric personality endears customers and allows for more sales of whatever she's put out for sale. Oliver's main skill is good old-fashioned hard work. Make a certain amount of sales each day and earn "Oliver Only" bonus points! //NEWSPAPER ITEMS THE BEACH BUGLE YOUR BEACH NEWS EVERYDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY //NEWSPAPER HEADLINES Hannah's Wild Ride! Hannah Crowed New Queen Of Tween! Tween Star Sensation! Ms. Montana? Meet Mr. President! Hannah Montana Back In The Studio! Hannah Montana In A Hoedown Throwdown! Hannah Montana Has The Best Of Both Worlds! Hannah Montana Gets Crazy In '09! Hannah Montana Shares Her Good Life "I Have Everything I Want", Claims Montana Superstar Hannah Montana On Living The Dream Hannah Montana Discusses Tour Plane Mix-Up Montana Heading Back To Tennessee? Hannah Supreme In The Spotlight Game Over For Montana? "What's Not To Like?" Asks Tween Queen. Montana & Pal Enjoy A Girl's Night Out. Hannah Montana Pumps Up The Party! Hannah Montana Fever Hits Malibu! Hannah Fans Jump For Joy //NEWSPAPER CONSUMER DEMAND Malibu primed for surfing competition, featuring 20 pro surfers from around the nation! Unseasonable Malibu cold snap has beachcombers braying "Brrrrrr"! Keep the beach from hitting you back: wear sunscreen and drink water today, Malibu Doc suggests. The waves aren't the only thing that's wet! Light showers expected today. Hannah Fan Convention overwhelms local restaurants! //WEATHER REPORTS Sunny Hot Partly cloudy Windy Cloudy High 78° F High 91° F High 65° F High 57° F High 70° F Percip 0% Percip 0% Percip 74% Percip 50% Percip 90% //INVENTORY PANEL The Shop Is Open Closed POPCORN It isn't just for the movies! Popcorn is always is popular choice for Malibu munchers. SODA Ahhhhh! Nothing beats a cool refreshing Soda. The drink of choice on the beach. HOT DOGS Hot Dogs and cool waves make a perfect combination any day of the week, come rain or shine. SUNSCREEN Sunscreen protects exposed skin from the harmful rays of the sun. Sells especially well on hot days. BOTTLED WATER The sand and sun sure can work up a thirst. Stock plenty of water especially on hot days. RAIN JACKETS Is it going to be a cold or rainy day? Help your patrons stay warm and dry by stocking some jackets. BURGERS Beach time = burger time! a great on-the-go meal, especially for busy beachgoers who don't want to wait. HOT CHOCOLATE Hot Chocolate is a primo way to warm the bones of chilly chargers on the beach. SURFBOARDS Be sure to have surfboards ready to go when the national surf competition comes to Malibu! HATS Hats are perfect for keeping the sun out of your eyes on hot days... and your hair in place on windy ones. UMBRELLAS Don't let your patrons get caught off guard on a rainy day. Keep plenty of umbrellas ready to sell. ICE CREAM You Scream, I Scream... Your customers will scream for ice cream! Especially on hot days. SMOOTHIES A very popular treat... but smoothies are a bit frosty, so they probably won't sell well on cold days. TOWELS Hey, surfers have to dry off somehow, right? Towels are always a popular item to have ready to go. T-SHIRTS T-Shirts are always a reliably selling item on any beach in America. //END OF DAY SCREEN day what you had: what you spent: what you earned: what you have: today's score: day //END OF GAME SCREEN Guess you showed Rico who's the boss, boss! Great job winning Rico's challenge! Uh-oh. Looks like Rico's taking it all to the bank! Better luck next time! DAY 1: DAY 2: DAY 3: DAY 4: DAY 5: total score: play again //ADDITIONAL $ available units: totals Replay Back to the beach //INSTRUCION TEXT Back Play now Next instructions The inventory screen allows you to select which products to stock in the Surf Shop. More products become available after each day. Roll over the item and read the descriptions for tips on which items are the best to stock for any given day. Click on an item to add the product to the shop's available inventory. Use the bottom slider to control the amount of items you purchase. Use the side slider to set the price. Go all the way to the top to ask for double what you paid for it! Click the back to the beach to open the shop for the day and start serving your customers! Open your inventory screen by selecting the dollar sign button in the corner of the screen. You can re-open your inventory any time to choose new items, restock current items, or change the prices, even when you have customers at the counter! Customers will travel past your shop along the beach. Roll over each customer to see a thought bubble which shows what the customer wants. Click on a customer to bring them to the Surf Shop counter. You can serve 4 customers at a time. If you have the item the customer wants and are selling at the right price, you will automatically start to serve them. If a customer thinks your price is too high, or you don't have the item they want, a thought bubble will appear with one of the these two symbols: Take note! Whenever you return something from your inventory, you only get back 3/4 of the money you paid for it! Sometimes it's better to purchase fewer amounts of something until you know that customers really want it! Read THE BEACH BUGLE, especially the weather report, for ideas on what kinds of products to stock in the Surf Shop. Your score is determined by how much money you made on any day and how many happy and unhappy customers you had. Get a score of 1,000 or higher to win Rico's Surf Shop Challenge!