The Holy Grail - by Joe Emerson & Ken Smith (1984 Hayden Software)
Walkthrough by Juan Duc
N, Take sword, N, N, W, W, S, N (wait until you get the message that you hear
noises)
S, Help knight, Tell me about princess
N, W (wait until the haycart shows up and the man tends the donkey)
Enter haycart (wait until it takes you inside the palace, gets off the haycart and
goes somewhere else)
Exit cart, W, Open door, W, S, U, Read sign
Enter
Read sign
Look (now you have to explore this map, which is a simple rectangle, repeating the
"look" command every time you enter a new room. Once you have finished doing this
in all rooms you will get a message saying "You may now exit your password")
Exit, D, E, E, E, E, E, E, E, E, NW (keep going NW until you reach the moat)
SE, E (keep going East until you encounter the Enchanted Lake)
Throw sword, Take sword, E, NE (keep going NE until you reach the highwayman's
hideout; wait until he appears)
Kill highwayman (repeat this until he trips and begs for mercy)
Arrest highwayman
SW, W (keep going West until you see "a break in the dense undergrowth" to the NW)
NW, NW, NW, W, U, Take book, D, E, E, U,
Read writing (it says: 10 X segment
+ offset
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virtual cell )
D, W, N, N, W, Take wine, E, S, E, D, Read sign (it says "Virtual Cell Number
19999")
Open door, U, U, N, N, Open door, W, Look board
Look numbers, Push Load, 9999, BX, Push Fetch, Push Execute, E, S, S, D, D, Open
door
Enter, Look panel, Push Load, 10000, Push fetch, Push Load, 10007, Push fetch, Take
princess
Exit, U, W, S, SE, SE, SE (keep going SE until you reach the highway), NE, E, Look,
U (you might want to save your game here, lest the coming battle ends up against
your favor)
U (wait until the dragon appears)
Kill dragon (repeat this until you kill him)
D, D, E, S, Tell me about grail
Pay toll
S
Read sign
W (wait until pottery vendor appears)
Tell me about grail
Bid 9
Bid 9
E
W (wait until pottery vendor appears again)
Bid 1
Bid 2
Bid 3
Bid 4 (keep doing this, increasing the amount by only one gold coin, until the
vendor gives you a price you can afford)
Bid amount you can afford (varies for each game; for example, suppose that the
vendor says that he can let you have it for 7 gold coins: Bid 7 and the cup is
yours)
E, E, Drop gold coins (if you had any left), Drop shield, Take bread
W, N, N, W, W, SW, W (keep going W, waiting a bit after entering each screen, all
the way down to the palace foyer, back and forth if necessary, until you stumble
upon the beggar; he appears randomly, many times at the palace foyer)
Give bread (now go back all the way East to the highway until you can no longer go
East)
NE, NE, Look, D, D (wait until you reach the Crystal Grotto), Take rock, Look, U,
U, N, N, E, Look mirror
Clean mirror, Clean mirror, Clean mirror, Read label, Read book, Open book, Turn
page, Turn page, Look mirror, Say reflect
E, S, S, E, E, E, Put cup on table
Pour wine in cup
Break bread
Chng (watch, or rather read, ending sequence)
-THE END-
Score: 333 points out of 333. Rank: King
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