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the Queen's chamber then fol-
while stalking the Queen as
low the armoury-control room you can easily switch to some-
route, then On the final move
one else to kill her. There is
for the control room, g o always safety in numbers.
straight ahead. East) using
Fighting in the Dark — all is
this route will make sure bot
h not lost if you lose the lighting
rooms which provide light are
A few things you should forget n•-•
properly defended while mak
▪ m u on
• right away are getting any-
ing sure you back at the where near the queen's cham-
Armoury whenn the ammo
runs low.
ber, getting acid in front of
doors and firing wildly. You will
Killing Aliens — The Warrio
r also have to use the AD to get
— it usually walks around the anywhere. And don't shoot
room for about ten seconds, door locks — as you can see
Until it rushes at you. You
the outline of the 6 dots, very
want to find and kill it before it helpful in the dark. More often
rushes you with either one
than not you can spot the
shot to the head or two to the outline on an alien warrior
body. To save on ammo use against the white freatures of
head shots. But, to make sure the wall, Try to notice other
you never get acid in front of a
things, like the flashing at the
door use a body shot so the edges of the camera window
Alien is nowhere near the door as an alien warrior dis-
when you kill it. If a warrior
appears, or when the scrolling
rushes toward you without you slows down as a warrior
shooting first, use body shots appears. Growth is a problem,
again to make sure its dead. as it is pitch black. You are
Don't get scared and fire
allowed to fire a couple of
several shots across the war-
'spotlight' shots before a warriors
body which will probably rior rushes you and this also
miss anyway. If you want to
helps you spot facehuggers.
make sure a warrior is dead.
Keep him in view until it leaps
use three shots.
— then blast it.
Facehuggers — These
Finally if the old spot light
crawl along the ground for trick does not work, find the
about five seconds before nearest door and GET OUT.
leaping out at you. It Only Then re-enter the room and try
takes one shot to kill. If you again. You might as well get
are lucky enough to see it
to, and stay near the armoury
crawling shoot it quickly. If it as you cannot bring back the
jumps at you, aim carefully lighting once it fails.
and fire twice.
Auto-Direction Codes:
When you came across a
1. MTOB to Armoury — 3E,
2N, 1E, 2N, 3E, 1N. 2E, 2S,
1W, 35.
Armoury to Control Room
— 3n. le ln 3e 2s le 2s 7e 2s
le is 4e in le 2n 3w
facehugger, blow it away and
clear some growth in that
room, then go forward one
room and clear some of that
growth. Remember to rotate
all the way around the room as
eggs do not give off a bleep.
Queen's Chamber — try to
et a least four people with
ood ammo rates. Good tacics
if someone gets captured
More for the MSX this month
and this time it is from Richard
Williams of South Yorkshire.
First up is Oh NO! — keep
moving. The sides prove to be
very useful, but don't go
through the side while ghosts
have entered on the opposite
side. This could lead to instant
death.
Hoppe, — cross the road
carefully. Follow the traffic in
the first lane and then quickly
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room — 9n 2n le in 1w
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dash across the second lane
avoiding the fast cars. When
on s the logs be careful of stepping
S on to disappearing turtles.
Beware of Sid the Snake
on Elevel
3.
Jack the Nipper — when
C you have your pea-shooter,
shoot O passers-by and walk of
the screen before they attack
you. N This only allows a limited
amount D of naughtiness, so
don't keep risking your rash
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because you are not gaining
any points.
Vampire — make sure you
collect all the keys, but don't
get the hammer, stake or
cross until you have opened
all the doors and shutters. Be
careful of falling rocks.
Hyper Rally — when you go
through stage 1 try not to just
achieve the qualifying rank but
get as close as possible to the
next qualifying rank. You then
nil •
have less cars to pass enabling
you to get closer to the
next qualifying rank.
For giving you all this info.
Richard wants some help with
the following. Finders Keepers
— how do you pass the 'puss
with no boots • and escape
Castle Spriteland?
Knight Tyme — how do you
take a photograph of yourself
and stick it on your I.D. card.