Tile ~venturers' Journal October, 1991 $2.50 Police Quest raids QB office! he amber bottle of Composed by Jan Hammer responsible for a series of T W aterfill and Frazier, of Miami Vice fame, the similar killings; eventually Wyatt Earp's favorite music's driving beat and identifying him as none other whiskey, waited on my desk dynamic melodies make an than the brother of Jesse when Jim Walls arrived. I had exciting counterpoint for the Bains, the Death Angel - the picked it up in Mexico weeks digitized video used to villain of I and II. ago, and upon learning Walls illustrate the characters. Bains' brother went wacko and Sierra's public relations The first one I saw was and wound up in some crazy honch0 Anita Greene were Walls himself, decked out in cult. In addition to bringing flying in to give me a sneak his old California Highway him to justice, you've got to peek at the game, had figured Patrol uniform. Besides ferret out a crooked cop in the that Earp' s brand would make appearing in the opening department, a sub-plot that an appropriate way to scene, he shows up when you gives this Police Quest more welcome to the author of make mistakes in the process depth than previous ones. Police Quest Ill: The Kindred of investigating crimes. Other Walls pays close attention to Tucson. characters, cars and props are to the mail he gets from After we toasted Sonny also depicted with digitized A similar photo of Walls adventurers. That's why Bonds, Wyatt Earp, the Old videos and photos. was digitized for the game Sonny, even though he was West, the New West and the promoted to Homicide for Great Northwest, Walls Cu/tot the a murder attempt, unaware solving previous crimes, popped open a portable that his wife Marie is the starts this one on traffic duty. Toshiba 386 and rigged up a Kindred victim. She lives but is "People said they liked pair of Bose speakers. This time Sonny is after a hospitalized with a coma. stopping cars and giving out serial killer. The chase begins Sonny sets out to track Continued on page 2 by Shay Addams when he races to the scene of down the psychopath Contents Simulations!™ cleared for take-off 1.::1·11111111:11:111::,111:1·1·.·:·11::1:·11:·1 It was the best of times, it was the worst of only $8. A lst class or Canadian QB sub times - it was time to launch another entitles you to get Simulations! for a mere publication. Simulations! will $6. Overseas QB subscribers can get it for cover the fast-growing field just $15. (All checks and money orders of flight simulators, tank should be made payable to simulators, world simulators - Eldritch, LTD.) If you prefer to everything but golf simulators! .a11111~'81iB see a sample copy first, send $2 (In fact, we almost called it for the premier issue. "Everything but Golf.") Simulations! will be QuestBusters forever! published seven times a year and commence with a November-December And don't worry about this new publication issue. Subscriptions are $16 a year to USA diverting our attention from QB and addresses. But QB subscribers can get adventures - as you can see in this issue, - Simulations! for half the regular subscription the design work for the launch of rate, or even less. Simulations! has already begun to pay off in If you have a 3rd class sub, it will cost an improved 'look and feel' for QB. Shay Addams' Fall finds the Police Quest.. ... from page 1 industry The Mail Maze TI.I fumbling along tickets. Now they'll also get to Adventure in hopes of direct traffic after a big accident." ~~n mciking their Some of the excuses you'll get r::U.___-====~~~-~ Road Christmas dead- from speeders are based on those he lines. Here's got from real drivers when he was Dear QuestBusters: what was giving them real tickets. (These I'm excited about hearing speech in the new games. QB has supposed to have scenes are among the most amusing recommended Sound Blaster, but shipped for MSDOS in the game.) since I have an Ad Lib, wouldn't I in September: Leisure be better off upgrading it to an Ad Suit Larry V, Police Quest III, High-tech tools Lib Gold if I get a good deal? Planet's Edge, Might & Magic III, There are more puzzles, and they're Bill Borre Twilight 2000 and The Martian not quite as easy. They weren't even Memorandum. Pools of Darkness easy for Walls: "I had already The new Ad Lib Gold and Sound and Wing Commander II did ship designed the puzzles for a parser Blaster Pro are not recommended: they' re aimed at the multimedia last month. Conversions for interface," Walls recalled. ''Then market and will receive no September include The Immortal Sierra tells me they're going to use (MSDOS) and Space Quest IV and significant support from game the new 'no parser' interface, and I companies for at least a year (the King's Quest V for Mac and Amiga. had to revise everything." Gold and Pro, however, will still But when a company says a game Sierra's new interface is deliver standard Ad Lib and Blaster is shipping, that doesn't always well-suited for this game, in which sounds and music). The Sound mean to the stores: it may mean to you manipulate an assortment of Blaster has a standard DAC for the duplicator, or to the distributor high-tech police tools: the speech, and the original Ad Lib does after duplication, after which it goes breathalyzer, a computer that spits not have a DAC at all. Sound to the stores. The further east you out traffic tickets in the front seat of Blaster also give$ you a joystick live, the longer your wait. your car, and a "game in itself' port. The Gold will have a non-standard DAC that will require machine that creates composite Octoberquests specific support from designers, so drawings of suspects as you choose you are better off selling your Ad October is hereby declared the different eyes and other facial Lib and getting a Blaster. A Roland Official Month of the Sequel for features. has the best sounds but no DAC. If MSDOS quests: Spellcasting 201, The emphasis is on suspenseful you can handle it, get a Blaster for Conquest of the Longbow, Les authenticity: it's a by-the-book speech and Roland for sounds: some Manley II, Elvira II, Shadow procedural that rewards you with games support both simultaneously, Sorcerer, Indiana Jones II, Monkey points for following correct police the best of both worlds. I stand II, Lord of the Rings II, procedure as you unravel puzzles. Magic Candle II, Castles Campaign The gritty world of police work that Disk I, Star Trek, Bard's Tale he lived in for years is brought Construction and Ultima VII (if you vividly to life by the digitized videos really believe Garriott will ever and exciting music- and Walls' finish one on schedule). sense of humor keeps it as Count on several others slipping entertaining as it is realistic. Editor: Shay Addams into November. One developer, Ali The IBM version should be on Managing Editor: Dora McCormick News Editor: Boris Yeltsin N. Atabek, told me that if his game, the shelves by now, and we'll have a Contributing Editors: Bernie Yee, Magic Candle II, " ... doesn't ship by feature review as soon as the final Al Giovetti, Rich Heimlich, Ken St. October 15, there will be executions version rolls in the door. Andre, Stephen King, Brian Smith, around here ... and I'll be first!" Steven Payne, Russ Ceccola, Bruce Then in November start looking E. Wiley, Duffy, This Reviewer for Bane II: Crusaders of the Dark Quote of the Month Savant, Buck Rogers II, Eye of the ''There are quests and roads QuestBusters is published monthly that lead ever onward, and by Deadlines Anonymous. Annual Beholder II, Dusk of the Gods and subs, 3rd Class, $19; lst Class, $24, all of them end in the same Ultima Underground. Canada, $26, Int'l, $36. Contents No games are planned for place - upon the killing Copyright Eldritch LTD., 1991, All December, since they wouldn't ground." Rights Reserved. Copying without reach the stores until January - Stephen King, express permission is prohibited and which is when at least a half-dozen The Dark Tower punishable by The Doom Patrol. of the above titles will really arrive. Member: South American Explorers Club Gateway to the Savage Frontier nother in SSI's series of Gold Kraken Society stronghold on an The end game is one long battle in A Box games, Gateway sports a island in the Trackless sea (Krakens which you can't see a complete view newly improved game combat worship giant ship-eating squid). of the level, or even save the game. and wilderness exploration game This alliance involves many evil engine. Though the familiar characters who have hidden those Automapping to the end eight-bit graphics look the same, special magical artifacts that can Automapping assists you except for game play is quick and better than in restore the balance between good the end game, where you walk previous offerings in the series. and evil in the realms. through the It continues the Gold Box games' Gateway is true to overhead tradition of interactive fiction, a AD&D game play. diagonal tradition that was not respected in Besides help from the combat view Eye of the Beholder.