Starship Adventure
By Steve W Lucas
Published in A&B Computing, issue 3, vol. 1, no. 3, September/October 1983, pp. 99–104
For BBC
Solution by Garry Francis
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This is a minimal solution to a very buggy game. You'll need a lot of trial-and-error, as the
puzzles don't follow any logic and there are very few in-game hints. There's also a lot of
red herrings that feel like they should be part of the game, but haven't been implemented.
Guess-the-verb is rife. For example, who'd have guessed that you need to use BLAST or BURN to
fire a phaser.
Your objective is to find 10 treasures and return them to the cargo hold. There are actually 11
treasures, but one of these (the Apple computer) is hidden in a room that is never revealed. The
version I played only required you to recover 5 treasures, but I think this is a typo or a bug in
the original listing. To fix this, change "A%=5" in line 170 to "A%=10".
Your inventory is limited to three items, so you're going to have to make at least four trips
to the cargo bay. Part of the challenge is working out how to do this in the minimum number of
moves.
Scores in the solution are shown in brackets as +A=B, where A is points earned and B is cumulative
points earned.
N
GET KEY
S
E
E
GET PASS
W
W
W
W
DROP PASS (guard checks it, reveals exit to south)
S
DROP KEY (key opens lock, reveals exits to south and east)
S
E
GET HELMET
S
UNLOCK PADLOCK (you're free, reveals exit to east)
E
GET PHASER
W
W
N
N
E
S
GET MANUAL
E
S
DROP HELMET (manager thanks you, reveals exits to south and east)
N
W
N
GET PICKAXE
W
W
N
E
E
E
E
S
HIT GUARD (with pickaxe, reveals exit to east)
E
S
E
BLAST TIGER (with phaser, reveals exits to south and east)
S
DROP MANUAL (repairman thanks you, reveals exit to south)
N
W
N
W
N
W
W
S
DROP PHASER (+1=1)
DROP PICKAXE (+1=2)
N
N
W
GET PANEL
E
S
E
GET BATTERY
E
S
E
S
E
E
DROP PANEL
DROP BATTERY (force field weakens, reveals exits to south and east)
S
GET CREDIT
N
W
W
N
W
N
E
DROP CREDIT (so you can get whisky)
GET WHISKY
GET CREDIT
W
S
E
S
E
S
S
DROP WHISKY (caretaker now allows you to take book)
GET BOOK
N
N
E
E
GET BBC
N
DROP BOOK (shelf slides aside, reveals exit to east)
E
E
GET ZIRCONIUM
W
W
S
W
W
W
N
W
N
W
W
S
DROP CREDIT (+1=3)
DROP BBC (+1=4)
DROP ZIRCONIUM (+1=5)
N
E
E
S
E
S
E
E
S
E
S
GET PFENNIG
S
E
GET STATUE
S
GET GALAXIAN
N
W
W
N
W
W
N
W
N
W
W
W
W
S
E
E
DROP GALAXIAN
GET EARRING
W
W
N
E
E
S
DROP STATUE (+1=6)
DROP EARRING (+1=7)
N
W
W
S
E
S
E
S
E
DROP PFENNIG (you can now get the silk newspaper)
GET SILK
N
GET CHEESE
S
S
GET PLATINUM
N
W
N
W
N
W
W
N
E
E
S
DROP SILK (+1=8)
DROP CHEESE (+1=9)
DROP PLATINUM (+1=10)
***THE END***
