Area 51
By Jim Gerrie
For VZ200/300
Solution by Garry Francis
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This is a minimal solution to a truly awful game. It exhibits all the things that people hate about
old-school games, including guess-the-verb, guess-the-noun (or guess the invisible object), no
listing of exits, arbitrary search, lack of EXAMINE, need to enter adjectives as well as nouns,
crazy map with one way directions and mazes, sudden death and illogical puzzles. I doubt that
you'd be able to finish it without the official walkthrough.
Some optional (but significant) commands are shown in parentheses. These can be omitted once you
know what to do.
There is no SCORE command. A score is given at the end, but I have no idea how it is calculated. A
minimal solution gives you a higher score. By omitting the optional commands, I got a score of 107.
(SEARCH CAR) (you find a note)
(GET NOTE)
(READ NOTE) (go west young man, go west, i.e. GO WEST twice)
SEARCH BOOT (or TRUNK for Americans, you find a basket)
GET BASKET
W
W
SEARCH DESERT (you find a cow skull)
GET COW SKULL
E
E
E
SEARCH FENCE (you find a sign)
GET SIGN (you reveal a hole and can now go east)
E
GET SNAKE (with the basket)
N
E
DROP SNAKE (it shorts the electric fence, you can now go east)
E
E
E
(SEARCH ALIEN SKELETON) (its skull is as big as a cow's)
SWAP SKULLS (you now have an alien skull)
W
W
S
W
W
DRIVE (you escape and expose the secret of Area 51 to the whole world)
***THE END***
