INCA - by Joe Emerson and Ken Smith (Hayden Software, 1985)
PC version
Walkthrough by Juan Duc and Alex Dijkstra
During the Prologue do not allow Cupay and Amaru to take the brooch from you:
First Drop brooch, and right before they hit you on the head, Take brooch
Now you are at the start of the game (proper):
Get everything, (wait until no sharks are around and) Jump into water
Note 1: Since sometimes a shark may appear while you are in the water, and it might kill you, it is
a good idea to save your game while you are in the lifeboat. This can be done by typing Save 1, Save
2, etc. up to number 5. Then you can load your saved game by typing Restore 1, Restore 2, etc.
E, E, E, E (or until you arrive at the beach)
Note 2: From here on Cupay and Amaru appear randomly in some screens after a certain amount of time,
and if you happen to be carrying items in your inventory they will take some of them from you and
then drop you at some random location. This random element can be very annoying sometimes. It is
advisable to save your game often at safe locations where this pair do not show up (like in the
cornfield, or the cave, for example.) If you happen to get caught by them, you can just restore your
saved game and try it again. If Cupay and Amaru are very persistent and keep showing up before you
can get to a safe location, you might want to drop all items from your inventory and let them
capture you. Since you have nothing with you they won't be able to take it from you. Then they
will hit you and drop you at some random location and disappear for a while. Find your way back to
where you dropped your items and continue playing.
Examine brooch, Examine canteen, Open canteen, Examine knapsack, Look in knapsack, Examine charqui,
Put brooch in knapsack, E
Note 3: You are in the cornfield. To find the next item (the leaves) is a random event, you have to
keep going through the maze, sometimes it appears in the first direction you go to, sometimes it
takes many attempts. A typical trial would be E, S, E, S (you can see and pick up the leaves now)
Take leaves, Examine leaves
Note 4: Once again comes a random element. You need to find your way to the screen where you can see
a bucket. Wander around the maze until you find it (sometimes you land on it in just one move, other
times it takes many attempts.) The bucket seems to be a red herring, or at least I could not find
any use for it.
S, Fill canteen, E, Examine log, Examine under log, Get diamond, E, N, Drop everything, S, E, NW, E,
S, Get pole, Examine pole, E, S, W, W, W, N, W, Get rod, Examine rod, E, S, E, E, E, N, W, N, W, W,
NW, Open door, E, S, E, U, Examine swicth, Open switch with pole, D, N, N, U, Open switch with pole,
D, S, E, E, Examine grid, Throw rod at grid, E, Open case, Look in case, Get amelite, N, W, Get
torch, Examine torch, S, W, W, S, W, N, W, SE, S, E, S, E, S, W, W, W, SW, W, Drop pole, Light
torch, E, NE, E, E, E, N, W, N, W, W, Get mirror, NW, W, Burn corn, N, Examine machine, Focus mirror
on paddles (wait for the message to scroll in), Drop mirror, Get elyston, S, Get popcorn, Examine
popcorn, S, E, E, N, Drop everything, Get leaves, Get Knapsack, Get canteen, Get popcorn, S, E, NW,
E, S, E, S, W, W, W, SW, S, Read sign, Drop popcorn, N, S, Get feather, Examine feather, N, W, Put
leaves in bonfire, Grab vine, NE, W, SW, SE, S, Get charqui from knapsack, Give charqui to Indio,
Give canteen to Indio, Examine Indio, Get idol, Examine idol, N, E, NE, E, E, E, N, W, N, N (wait
for the chief of the tribe to show up), Examine chief, Give feather to chief, S, W, SE, W, N, U,
Examine pedestal, Put idol on piston (wait for message to appear), D, N, Get naranhite, Examine
tube, Open tube, Get idol, Put naranhite in tube, Close tube, U, U, Get naranhite, D, Give idol to
Indians, Put roxite in knapsack, Put naranhite in knapsack, Get everything, S, E (wait for Indio to
show up; notice he's excited about something and waves his hands at you), Follow Indio (now you
are all the way up the rock, where the condor's nest is, otherwise not accessible), Put torch
in nest (it burns), Get pauladium, N, S, S, Examine spot, Look in hole, Get amarill, Empty knapsack,
Drop knapsack, Get Brooch, Put diamond in brooch, Put brooch in hole, Get roxite, Get naranhite, Put
amarill in yellow beam, Put roxite in red beam, Put elyston in green beam, Put pauladium in blue
beam, Put naranhite in orange beam, Put amelite in purple beam (watch, or rather read, ending
sequence)
-THE END-
302 points out 320 total points
