ZX Computings - OpenLibra

Collecting
xylenium
16K Came
From darkest Harlescott in
Shrewsbury, 15-year-old
Nick Wilson sends us to the
planet Ganeymede 11, to
gather xylenium crystals.
Monsters and matter
transporters are just two
of the hurdles which
stand in the way of your
gathering intergalactic
wealth.
In this game for a 16K ZX81
(which will run quite happily,
with a few minor changes, on a
ZX Spectrum), you are aboard
space flight 12/03 to the planet
Ganeymede 11. Your mission
there is to collect as many
Xylenium crystals as you can
find, and bring them back to
good old Terra Firma. For each
crystal you bring back, you'll be
paid CI,000,000.
The planet consists of an
underground maze of rooms
through which you can move at
will. You'll get reports, during
your journey, telling you about
the contents of various rooms,
and from time to time — if
you're lucky — you'll be shown
a map of the planet surface, and
where you are on it. Most of the
rooms are empty, but others
contain things to slow you down
(or even kill you). Hazards on
your journey include locked
rooms, monsters, matter transporters
(which move you all over
the place, quite randomly) and
bottomless pits (and the great
display which appears on your
TV screen if you fall down a pit
almost makes it worth ending
the game in that way}. Right
now, gird your loins and enter
the undrground caverns of
Ganeymede 11.
Provision is made within the
program for a SAVE of all
variables, so when the program
is LOADed and run it will continue
from exactly where it left
off. When typed in, the program
should be saved by GOTO 9998,
and then when loaded again it
will execute itself (which sounds
very painful!)