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The Adventurers Club Ltd. 64C Menelik Road, London NW2 3RH The Adventurers Club Ltd. 64c Menelik Road, london NW2 3RH. Telephone: 01-794 1261 , l MEMBER'S DOSSIERS Nos 25 , 26 - OCTOBER 1987/NOVEMBER 1987 ********************************************************** REVIEWS: ltHIGHT ORC BRAWN FREE KINGDOM OF HAMIL ADVEN'l'URE QUEST THE LURKING HORROR THE CUP BESTIARY CASTLE TRADE REVISITED STATIONFALL CASTLE EERIE TOP SECRET ARTICLES BY: PETER AUSTIN RICHARD BARTLE KEITH CAMPBELL HUGH WALKER LATEST HEWS ON THE ADVENTURING SCENE HINTS 'N' TIPS DISCOUNTED SOFTWARE AND MUCH MORE 111 12 Help-Line Details EDITORIAL ****************- ********* Members have access to our extensive databank of hints and solutions Dear Fellow Adventurer, for most of the popular adventure games. Help can be obtained as Welcome to MOs Nos 25-261 follows I By Mail. In this issue, we welcome Gavin McGarvie who may be better known to Please* enclose a Stamped Addressed Envelope. Give us the title and you as Sam, the MUD wizard'.: .Gavin ' joins the permanent ACL Reviewing version of the game(s), and detail the query(ies) which you have. We Tea~ and, as a specialist of Infocom adventures, offers his first shall usually reply to you the same day. Overseas Members using the reVlew (THE LURKING HORROR) on page 13. Mail Help-Line need not enclose a SAB, replies to their queries will be sent together with their next Member's Dossier. With Christmas just around the corner, we offer a special discount on software titles (page 11), just in time for your Christmas shopping. * By Telephone. We shall endeavour to help you on our phone Help-Line which will be We have also started the Infocom Fidelity Club (page 41). ACL Members open on 01-794 1261 during the following days and hours: can, already, get up ~o 25% discount on Infocom adventures and, in - Mondays , Thursdays 17:00 to 19:00 (Evening sessions) addltion, wlll recelve a FREE Infocom adventure for every 10 that they 12:00 14:00 - Tuesdays to (Lunch session) pur7h~s~ through the Club. Thanks to a special arrangement with - Wednesdays , Fridays 16:00 to 17:00 (Afternoon sessions) Actlvlslon, we now stock all the Infocom titles for the Atari ST and all ~ther versions can be obtained within 72 hours. How's that f~r Please ALWAYS quote your Membership Number (shown on the label of the servlce?l envelopes containing your Dossiers) when you contact us. ********************************************************************** Columnists: Royalties I * Peter Austin (page 7) reviews the 1987 PCW Show ********** * Keith Campbell (page 17) meets Scott Adams duri~g an evening to remember, although not for the obvious reasons 1 You may have written your own adventure(s), either by yourself, or * Hugh Walker (page 23) sets his own standards,'and also visits the with the help of one of the adventure-writing utilities which are now PCW Show, available for a growing variety of micros. The ever-increasing * Richard Bartle (pag~ 27) recounts the birth and death of Essex MUD, sophistication of these utilities allows the creation of graphics, the precursor of multl-user adventures. sound effects, split-screen routines, Save/Load from RAM Memory, etc ••• Reviews: -Knight Orc- (page 9), -Brawn Free- (page 10) We .shall be pleased to receive any adventures which you have created. -Kingdom of Hamil- (page 10), -Adventure Quest- (page 12) If, in our opinion, they are good, we shall be delighted to duplicate -The Lurking Horror- (page 13), -Castle Thade Revisited- (page 19) them, and offer them for sale through our Dossiers with due payment of -Bestiary- (page 20), -The Cup- (page 20), -Stationfall- (page 21)' royalties to you. We have arranged with an independent Software -Castle Eerie- (page 21), -Top Secret- (page 22). ' company to market nationally any outstanding adventures which we might receive from our Members. Please do not forget to let us have your vote for the ACL President (page 13). The position is quite an influential one, and it is YOU who If you have written any good adventures, please send them to us for will elect him - so make sure that you cast your vote for the nominee evaluation. Obviously, their standards must be very high with the of your choice. prime ingredients being originality, logical problems and bug-free creation. Please specify for which micro they will run and do enclose The next Dossier will include reviews of GNOME RANGER, JACK THE a map, a listing (if you can), and a step by step solution of the RIPPER, NOT A PENNY MORE - NOT A PENNY LESS, and Infocom's latest game. Please also mention the retail price which you would suggest. adv~nture(s), among ma~y others. Also, do not miss a fascinating All entries will be reviewed by our team and indIvidually assessed. artlcle by Fergus McNelll on -A Night Out Among Adventurers-I It just remains for us to wish you a very Merry and Peaceful Christmas, combined with a Prosperous and Adventurous New Yearl 15 14 Members Scrolls *************** wand to fool the dragon, although this should not present too much of a problem to experienced adventurers. * These pages are devoted to your letters. We aim to provide a lively Nigel Morse, Doncaster. and entertaining forum for all Members, so write to us about anything as long as it is connected with Adventures! You might want to let us I Dear ACL, know about your adventuring achievements, or pass on useful tips to I am prompted to write with regard to the "Rise and Fall" of other Members. You might have some suggestions or comments about the AdventureSoft. With the releases of REBEL PLANET and then KAYLETH, I Club itself, or you might have discovered some elegant or unforeseen thought to myself here at last is a purveyor of good quality software solutions to adventuring problems. In each Dossier, we may select a - no more would the poor cassette-bound adventurer have to live under "Star Letter" which will be awarded a £10.00 ACL Voucher, so we wait the shadows of the Infocoms of the adventure industry. But how short to hear from you! lived was my ecstasy to be. Recent offerings from AdventureSoft have had poor story-lines, MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE was pathetic. Although I I Dear ACL, admit that it might have been commercially viable, that is no excuse Although all the reviews of KNIGHT ORC are full of praise for this new for an adventure with little continuity. Level 9 game, I must say that I don't really like it. It is the first Even more unacceptable is the poor technical quality of recent Level 9 adventure that I don't like. releases. Cases to quote here are TEMPLE OF TERROR and SAVAGE ISLAND I must say that it has some really nice new features in it, like the 1/2. Problems are not confined to one make of computer and are too possibility to RUN TO (places), etc ••• But I think there is too much numerous to mention. Finally, what I find most disturbing is that I random killing in it, and I find that the game recognises almost no receive telephone calls from confused adventurers who, when they have verbs. It is good that you can "ramsave" it, because otherwise I would complained to AdventureSoft of faults, get a reply that indicates that have stopped playing it by now. Maybe I am the only one who doesn't their complaint is unique and that no others have been made to like this game, but I think there could have been less people running AdventureSoft. I recently received a telephone call from a woman who around - even if I happen to find out what the reason for their had made a complaint about the Commodore version of TEMPLE OF TERROR, presence is, I still think that less people would have been an adventure with a track-record of proven unreliability. This sufficient. I would have liked more logical puzzles: I don't think complainee was told that they (AdventureSoft) were unaware of the that it is logical not be able to reach inside a mouse hole at first problem. because it is too small, but being able to take the Card out of it In the past I have always bought AdventureSoft releases on the after you have sent the "Eye"' inside (because you know what is strength of the label, but no more. Is AdventureSoft an on-going inside???). commercial concern, or are they trying to commit suicide! I do hope Level 9 will bring out more new games, but please let at Dave Barker, London. least some of these games be more like their old ones. N. Klein Schiphorst-Bouman, Leende. I Dear ACL, I've heard a rumour ••• Level 9 have abolished 'Lenslok'. "Great", I * Dear ACL, hear you say. Unfortunately, like so many other rumours, this one I can't let you get away with the high rating you gave AFTERSHOCK (MDs isn't strictly true either. "Damn!", I hear you shout. Instead, Level Nos 21-22). I found it very easy, and solved it in under 5 hours. The 9 are now writing their entire adventure texts in 'code'. puzzles were obvious, and the only challenge was in matching my inputs I am referring to the eagerly awaited KNIGHT ORC. You know the one ••• to the rather limited parser. Frankly, it doesn't rate as a digitised graphics, 70 fully-interactive characters, brand-new challenging game, and the 15/20 score isn't warranted. all-singing, all-dancing parser etc, PLUS an almost totally unreadable Barry Hoole, Shepparton. text on the Atari ST version (unless of course one sits hunched over the keyboard, one eye tightly shut and the other held six inches away I Dear ACL, from the television).
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