Computer + Video Games - Commodore Is Awesome

BURNING
QUESTION
Ifs a satisfying feeling to have
completely solved an
adventure, isn't it? But Andy
Rice doesn't know whether to
give himself a pat on the back,
or not!
He has been playing
Fahrenheit 451 and thinks he
might have finished the game.
But if so. he has reached a
very unsatisfactory ending.
Having broadcast the
collected works of everybody
over the airways, he gets the
message: 'Well done. The
book world is saved, but you
are not,' and is then fried to
death by some rather violent
men.
'Is this it?' Andy. If so, it
seems rather harsh.' If he has
got something wrong, then
perhaps he needs to know how
to use the Wafer-5 properly.
the combination of the 4-D
locks, and how to enter the
grey steel building? Has he
completed the game. or not?
Who can help?
Who can help with a golden
oldie? Ian Sutton of
Beaconsfield is searching for
the castle in Sphinx, and wants
a very definite route there. No
obscure clues, please!
The Pawn is one of those
games where different people
manage different problems—
and get stuck on the others. So
between us, we should soon
have this adventure beaten!?
Unable to set the lead, I
helped Simon Hammond. He
in his turn has found a way
past the Snowman, and you'll
see this in the clues section. if
you too, are trying to enter the
ice tower!
I low do you set the Ruby
ow*
IELPLIRE
home in his "spare" time.
To become a Wizard
requires special skills, like
collecting treaures and
dropping them in the swamp.
But also, kind and helpful
deeds count a lot — and Paul
is a past master at helping
Chain in J. V. Software•s, struggling adventurers!
Journey To The Planets, asks With the rank of Wizard
R. W. Hearn of Lowestoft. I comes some powerful
can't help on this one — my privileges, which make MUD
problem is more fundamental. quite a different game to play!
How do you get Journey To You can arrange things so that
The Planets, RW? I've neither creatures kill or cast spells on
seen nor heard of it before! specified players — or you can
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tease them yourself! But of
riddle W 'What do the Sun course, too much of this sort of
brothers h quarrel about?* asks behaviour, and demotion
Michael Led‘iich of
could be just around the
Melbourne, a Australia. Ile is corner!
playing t Dark Crystal, and So what's a day in the life of
needs i to tell Aughra the a MUD Wizard really like?
answer, s to be able to get any Paul (alias Pierpont the
further in the game.
Wizard) arrives with a crash of
What
t
Gregory Quinn of thunder, and reveals all!
Portadown h thinks must he the -
most e illogical and unmappable to Hlet
you know that after
adventure a ever, is Island, by almost
Crystal. "ANY help would he
i
a year of struggling
against terrible odds, evil
n
welcome," says Gregory! dragons, , a butterfly with a
William s Hern's problem in flamethrower, K and Skiff. I've
Ultima w 2 can he solved by the finally e made it to Wizard on
possession e of an ankh when he MUD
i
takes
r
off, suggests Tim
Skiff, in case you're
Hammond of Sunningdale. wondering, t is a fellow Wiz. I
The t planet should be at 9-9-9 use hthe
term "fellow" in the
he o adds. Meanwhile, how can loosest ! possible way. He is
he topen
the doors in I lotel often J to be seen roaming the
California.
h
New San Antonia, land spreading pain and death
and Apocalypse City? with
u
every beat of his evil
And e finally, how do you get heart! s It has been said in some
the snake out of the basket in quarters t that he makes the
ZZ7.7_, asks Adam Bennett of Black Death look like a flu
Chat
s
bug!
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Skiff
t
made things rather
field LIFE AS A
interesting o for me when I
? WIZARD!
reached p the rank of Mage.
There p I was, taking a quiet
We always knew Paul Coppins walk across the North Pasture.
was a wizard at solving
i
heading for the Swamp Muds
adventures, but Paul is not the with n nothing but an armful of
type to boast about his harmless g treasure and a
achievements.
longsword b for company, when
The other week, it just suddenly
cropped up in casual
y
a ram, a goat, and a
raven appeared out of thin air
conversation, that Paul had, in and launched a combined
fact, attained the status of attack on me.
Wizard in MUD, a game he The goat and the raven were
has been playing quietly at soon on their way to heaven,
but just as the ram was about
to be despatched. the goat
re-appeared with a weapon
and the words: "I lave a
broadsword, sucker!" I
departed at high speed,
When I logged back in at the
tearoom, who should be there
trying to look all innocent?
Yes, Skiff!
Not all Mudders are as
dedicated to mayhem as Skiff
— most are quite friendly and
helpful. Like Lesolas the
Warlock, who has been known
to lay aside his quest to help a
fellow lift a heavy portcullis.
Then there's Sherlock, the
Necromancer, who walks the
land acting like the village
idiot when really he is one of
the smartest and most
generous players it could be
your good fortune to meet.
This is a successful ploy, for
while most players are busy
saying things like "Oh look —
there goes that silly old fool"
to each other when he passes,
he picks up all the treasure he
can carry, and nips back past
them again before anyone
spots what he is up to!
Must go — [left some bacon
cooking back in the Wizard's
home! Bye!"
And with that, Pierpont
disappeared in a cloud of
smoke, leaving a strange scent
of sizzling Danish pig behind
him.
SHINE A LIGHT
Malcolm Harden asked some
time ago, what three objects I
would choose to start Out on
an (any) adventure. My
answer was sword, lamp. and
keys—skeleton or all-purpose
bunch of.
Malcolm agreed about the
sword, but as Elvish swords
glow in the presence of
enemies, he felt there would
be enough of them around not
warrant a lamp!
He wasn't too keen on keys
either, since he felt sure they
wouldn't help with enchanted
doors. I suppose this depends