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F3ateway: Graphics and Textl for Years the Dash Between All-Text and $J The AdVentl.l'er's Newsletter Vol. II, lfi June, 1988 ~000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000~ f3ATEWAy: Graphics and Textl For years the dash between all-text and $J"aphic adventtres has raged on. Some desi9"1ers insist that !J'aphic adventll"e& are fer people who simply don't have enou{ll imagination to be stimulated by an all-text game, but illu81rated adventU"es have proved exceecin9y popular. Gateway melda these two styles into a refreshing hytrid (E1 retying predominantly on prose but ~l ~ Reed t hf' booln by f'il:» @;8\I1 illustrating key locations and situations. (!!:: lI1 ® Fer me, at least, it's a solid combination. I've always enjoyed g-aphic games as evil being who has trou{llt ruin to the much as the all-text variety, but can't world in the other dimension and now help thinking about all the memory threatens to enter OU" we.rid with the each pictll"e eats up and how much same intention. Natll"ally, your goal is more effectively that disk space mi{llt to travel throu{tl the gateway, track be allocated by the game's creator. down the villain and stop "im. Gateway's 1~ge manual is In the first scene, you find yourself in subtitled "A jOU"nal by Bertrand Von the building's office. The office is Wyk,.. the latter desaibed as yOll' illustrated, but you can toggle to and geat-Unde who recentJy ded and left all-text by typing "look" or mousing over you an old building filled with antiques, and dicking on the "text" button. books, and other trivia. You also (Conversions p-obahly won't emulate receive a ·hanct.witten letter in which he these facets of the Mac version - but reveals that a •gateway" into another they should be in color rather than dimension is hidden in the buildng. black & white.) A bit of exploration Reminiscent of Stephen King and eventually leads to the gateway. Peter Straub's fantasy novel The Talisman . the plot revolves around an [CONT I NUED ON PAGE 3] Adventure~Hotline Whlle waiting for Lord British to finish up Ult ima IV, you n:ay want to check out Origin's latest role-playing game --- AutoDueL No dungeons, dragons or wizards here, for it's based on Steve Jackson's board game, Car Wars. You have to "earn" your car in Amateur Night bef cire customizing it with weapons and other gear and hitting the road. The Apple version is set for June. We'll take it out for a spin next issue. The only real news from Cambridge-by-the-Sea is that lnfocom has moved to new and larger offices: 125 CambridgePark Drive, Cambrige_. MA 02140. Oh yeah, Wishbringer should be out any day now. At Electronic Arts, Trip Hawkins says the "median age of Adventure Construction Set owners appears to be close to 50 and ranges from pre-teens to senior citizens." The ACS contest wi 11 award $1,000 to the best user-designed games in ezch of three categories: Fantasy/Medieval, Spy/Mystery and Science Fiction. Deadline is January 1, 1986. Spinnaker's upcoming Nine Princes of Amber will be the first adventure in which the player doesn't have a real inventory or gather objects. That's because thP game focuses on character interaction, requiring you to collect relationships (like alliances) with people instead of things. Time Out: !magic's Time 1"1achine and Mac.Beth are on hald, and Time · Machine probably won't even be produced. But Damiano is in beta-testing right now. Activision, whose Mindshadow looked good, has more "in the pipeline." And American Eagle's next releass will be Fr~ctured Fables by the Sherwood Forest team of Rick lncrocci and Dale Johnson. QUESTBUSTERS.. 1s published monthly by The Addams Expedition, 202 Elgin Ct., Wfll/ne, PA 19087. Publisher/Editor: Shfll/ Ac:k1ams. Feng Shu1 Consultont: Sabona London. Still Lost in the M62e in Zork I Editor·: G. Moore. Annual subscr·iptions are $ 15. Contents© Shay Addams 1985, All R1ghts Reserved. C'.opy1ng or reprinting without express permission is prohibited and pun1shable by civil action and a grisly 03ath in a pit filled with slavering grues. Names of ell games are r·egistered trademarks of their manufocture.rs. problems, there's the jungle area, next the GATEWAY city and beyond to the Black Tower. You [CONTINUED FROM PAGE I] won't wander around in circles as much as in many games, and veterans may not even If you get stuck, the game provides three have to map the p 1~. There are a coup le of Ar text mustrattons con tat nfng clues not small but convoluted mazes, however. You revealed in the onscreen esrt or text. Unlike can't move d181J)na11y ( northeast, etc.), those from forbictlen Quest, these are color which is standard for graphic games but cd1 drawings. (Their true purpose is for one with so much text. I don't mind, and copy-protection, so the use of color wonder if anyone else eVen cares. [Please apparently is intended to make it more send postcards to: I Even Care, c/o trouble for a pirate to photocopy.) QuestB usters"". J Most of the problems are object-oriented, THE POINT OF NO RETURN but you'll get a chance to chat with a few We've al I been there before. As in charocters and ask them about the robot and Sorcerer, Blade of B lackpoole and many other things. A Chesire Cat-like creature other adventures, you must round up called K'rnth makes intermittent certain objects before moving on to the next appearances and will oole out rhyming clues phase of the game -- which in this case lies that oon't cost a point -- if you know what on the other side of the gateway. You can't to ask him about. As in Planetfall and just walk back through it if you realize you Enchanter, you must eat, drink and sleep, missed something (though you can, of but not so often that it gets tedious. A course, restore a saved game). The on-11ne "diagnose" command lets you check out your help feature introoucecl in Pryority's immediate health. Forbidden Quest can save you plenty of time in this r·egar·d, for it wm te11 you exactly TECHNICALLY SPEAKING which four items are needed and even where The full-sentence parser has a 600-word to find one of them. This wi 11 cost you vocabu Jary and understands many more points, natur·ally, the amount depending on w~s of phrasing sentences than it did in whether you want a subtle hint, substantial Forbidden Quest. You can obtain hard copy clue or "the answer." Sometimes you won't as the game proceeds and turn off the be offered anything, and occasionally even graphics if desired. I didn't hear any sound "the answer" merely points you in the right effects. Due to the program's size, you can direction, perhaps referring to how to use only store one game on the program d1sk , an object but not specifying where to find it. but can save an unlimited number on other To attain the top score of I ,SOO points, you disks -- and you can name, not number, must complete the game without any help. them, which is always convenient. The (A dialog box and buttons is to display hints "panic" feature shows a spreadsheet if the on the Mac version.) boss walks in while you're pleying, which is On the other side of the gatewey, you' I I cpxl for at least one laugh. wander into a world of dinosaurs robots Pryority maintains its tradition of making and a deserted city where you find 'a woma~ the most of the Macintosh's special features. locked in a cell. The journey is actually The scroll bar is active, so you can review ouite linear: after the buildino and office [CONTINUED ON PAGE 11] .3 . Ready lo Run . It~ll Announcement! 11~, l . Last issue, we reviewed a program generator . Wondering what happened to the May issue? No , called AdyentureWriter. Apparently a lot of the OuestBusters"" staff didn't fall through a people alre00y knew about it, because the author Time Door. We've designated this the June issue program operated by the program's to correct the fact that until now , the current manufacturer has led to a whole line of low­ month's issue always arrives the last week of the priced 00ventures. They're called the "Re00y to month. From now on , you'll get the current Run" brand because you oon't need issue at the beginning of the month instead of at AdyentureWriter to lOBd 80d play them. the end of the month. End of announcement. Now The main attraction is the low price -­ fol 1out and return to your m8Zes. $19.95 for the two to three games on each disk. For now, they're all-text 00ventures that use a two-word parser. Future games wi11 incorporate grophics at key locations. better written in most cases, with more Here's a runcilwn on what's currently interesting rescriptions and unusual stories. available for the C-64: Sherlock Holmes You won't find a Zork in this collection , but Returns (two games); Time's Wrath (two set in you won't find all three Zorks on a disk for under "times pastN); ~(three time­ $20 , either. It's also fun to play games written related titles, like "History's Twist"); The Oftil by other adventurers rather than by Before, Pm:ts 1 & 2 (pilot a stealth plane to professionals.
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