COUNTDOWN
by Ryan Shaw
Infected Software
Spectrum 48
This game suffers from a limited number of verbs and actions that can be
performed, though it is quite playable. You are not sure what you are to do.
Actually, it is not really a bad game, though, as the author says, it has
too many corridors. Some verbs are quite specific (see the hints below).
Hints:
You need two items to blow up the dome.
Don’t bother exploring your ship. There is nothing there of interest.
Red herrings: food, knife, rope, radio.
There are two guards you need to pass: one you kill (with a functional
weapon), one you BRIBE (with something, of course).
To use the teleport, the correct verb is OPERATE. But you need something to
do this.
To decipher the hint you get, read it backwards.
Solution:
INVENTORY (nothing), S (at the dome), S, (it’s locked), W, N, TAKE CREDITS,
S, S, S, S (you see the bomb), S, S, TAKE DETONATOR, EXAMINE DETONATOR (a
box with a handle), S, W, TAKE KEY, E, N, N, N, W, W, (ignore the rope), N,
W, W, TAKE CRYSTAL, EXAMINE CRYSTAL (one shot from a laser gun), E, E, S,
E, S, W, W (ignore the radio), W, W, S, TAKE CARD, EXAMINE CARD (it is a
teleport card), N, E, E, N, E, E, E, S, S, S, E, N, E, N, N (in the teleport
room), OPERATE TELEPORT, W, N, W, TAKE DISK, E, S, E, OPERATE TELEPORT, E, N
(ignore the food), E, N, TAKE SPACESUIT, S, UNLOCK DOOR, DROP KEY, E, E.
TAKE EXPLOSIVES, W, W, DROP SPACESUIT, W, S, W, S, S, W, S, W, N, N, N, N,
N, N, E (at the dome), DETONATE EXPLOSIVES (you break the door down), DROP
DETONATOR, S, TAKE GUN, N, W, S, S, S, S, S, S, E, N, E, N, E, S (you see a
guard; you also get a hint – read it backwards), FIRE GUN, DROP GUN, S (in
the lift), UP, N, W (you see another guard), BRIBE GUARD (you enter a room
with a computer), INSERT DISK, LOOK (you see the code), TAKE CODE, N, E, S,
DOWN, N, N, W, S, W, S, W, N, N, N (in the bomb room). You type in the code.
You have saved the planet of Azora from complete destruction. Score: 140.
Terri Sheehan
2010-08-18
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