Spectrofon #13 12 мая 1995

Игры

Debut - adventyurnaya fantastic game "Worm in Paradise", the well-known firm LEVEL 9.

           D E B U T



   So, we begin to consider playing the legendary firm
Level 9. Today, the section "DEBUT
completely devoted to the game "WORM
IN PARADISE "(" Worm in Paradise ").
We must say at once that this is quite a complicated game: 
three-dimensional descriptions of locations, a huge dictionary, 
unbelievable for a 48 Kb gaming space ... But regardless doubt, 
a masterpiece. Several years ago, one expert adventyurnyh games 
after months of communication with the program said: "I chopped 
a lot adventyur, but this seems to be only removed

packaging! ".



   We would greatly appreciate
everyone who writes to us about their
achievements in the "WORM IN
PARADISE ". Once we have accumulated material - in the section
"Assault" will certainly continue
discussion. Well, now is our debut.


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  Andrew Shkolnikov, 1995.


        WORM IN PARADISE


         Level 9, 1985


       - Do not rush me. You

      you know, we, worms, tugodu
      We ...


      P. Shackley, R. Zelazny. "When
      Bring Me the Head of Fine
      of the Prince. "



   Games firms differ Level 9
huge volume of the dictionary, fascinating story, the quality of
language. Widely known for her game
"Emerald Isle", "Eric the
Viking ", episode" Silicon
Dreams ", which applies and
"Worm in Paradise".


   Trilogy "Silicon Dreams" starts playing "Snowball", in which 
the protagonist, Kim Kimberly must take control of a giant 
spaceship (in Game 8000 locations). However, there is

some doubts about
word "shall": the fact that
Level 9 has given the hero a name that
can be both male and
female (there is even an opinion,
Kim - an android). Article
A Visit to Level 9 "(" ZX-Review "
5-1994), said that even among
creators of the game was no agreement on this sensitive issue. I
I consider Kim a woman, but this
at the time.


   In the second game of the series
"Return to Eden" team salvaged ship blames (wrongly)
Kim in the murder.


   Kim is saved on the boat, landed on the planet star Epsilon 
Eridani, or Eden (Eden - both in English is called

Eden). Kim should make his way through hostile jungle, where 
the toxic proteins, and even birds of paradise, the territory 
of the Earth's colonies. 


   And finally, the object of my
review - "Worm in
Paradise "- the third game series.
Action it takes place through
many years after the events of the first
two series. However, starting the game with encouraging parting 
words, "You do not remember, "You find yourself not in Eden, 
and in the present paradise. 



   This paradise, it seems, a good
model of what is about to begin,
but as long as you and do not suspect walking along the nine
"Paradise" locations, and admiring
beautiful lawns and fragrant
Games protein (nonpoisonous). True, a bit suspicious that
paradise surrounded by high brick
wall. By the way, the council: tack bench (bench) from the 
location, which will start the game.


   Walk, you certainly notice the tree in
central "paradise" locations. In
response to an immediate "exam"
program describes in detail the tree, saying that it is
apple (tree of knowledge), but even before
lower branches about three feet,
while the trunk is too slippery to
climb on it (all posts
refer to text-only version).
Output is obvious - to throw a bench and stand on it (enough
give a command "on"; good
program will not only correct
understand you, but to print
Help canonical formulation team "stand on the
bench "). Standing on the bench, you can
boldly pluck an apple, and making sure it sorts Golden
Delicious, eat it.



   That's when you get to know and
a charming creature, who gave
the name of the game. From apple bits of worm crawls, falls
on the ground and begins to grow. Reaching a length of 20 
meters, he crawls out of the garden, on the way

prolamyvayas western wall. Follow after him.


   Immediately outside the walls of paradise to you
opens a completely different world -
brutal and desolate. Earth scorched and cracked, the only 
vegetation - prickly bushes (thornbushes), through which barely 
manage to squeeze. Instead of butterflies and squirrels around 
you scorpions and vultures. The dunes stretches to the west 
trail worm; walking on it, you get

to the abyss, which crosses the worm, and you just so it does 
not overcome.


   Therefore, until the turn back and
Fatal head for Dune (Doom
Dune), where the peacefully sleeping behemoth.
Of course, this behemoth - just
not the usual cute hippo, it's armored predatory
beast the size of multistory
home, devouring the travelers at night and resting during the 
day. K Fortunately, now days, and you can go to behemoth close 
enough to even consider the stragglers at the flake

on his back, but take it
fails - the behemoth is too huge, and the bench will not help 
here. Well, get together with the spirit and wake up the hippo 
(wake behemoth). Strange, but waking up the beast seemed 
somewhat dissatisfied, and sent to you did not hide their 
intentions. 


   Now is the time to remember the prickly bushes, you escape 
to the south, then west and again to the south (in any case not

let any other teams!
Behemoth catches you exactly
three steps). The monster attacks the
You, but you deftly dodges,
it misses the mark and confuses
in the bushes.


   Staying in a location with bushes, you are safe - hippo
misses on the first jump,
and the second can not do because of
bushes. You can safely consider
- Does not sit well here forever? AND
then you remember about the abyss -
if the hippo is always first, misses, then maybe ...
Go to the north, and twice to the west and in the location of 
the precipice calmly waiting for the attack. 


   Have to wait long -
behemoth catches, misses
and an unsuccessful effort to slow down the run, moving out 
into the abyss. 


   A huge beast is not broken down - for him it is not divide
deeper into the ditch - but do not get out
can. His back is almost level with the
edge of the abyss. The gulf can be
click on the hippo! Do not forget
take a backward flake - horny shield meter diameter.
On the other side of the divide continues to monitor the worm. 
Well, we go on it until you stumble on

worm next to the door, on which
says the magic word "Exit".
Another exit leads back to
Heaven for a brick wall, and there
You miss the worm. But, of course, you wonder what lies behind 
the release. 

   You go through this door, and
was then scale hippo rescues
Your life - the worm spits at you
poisonous saliva, but under the guise of meter board you have 
time run to the door.



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   Here, "a fairy tale ends and begins honest truth." 
Everything disappears, you hear a voice: "Thank you for viewing 
Revellina sleep." You find yourself in a small room, decorated 
in style paradise garden from the beginning

game. You are wearing tradclads -
boring, but practical clothes, to
which pinned multicolored
badge and a plastic collar, and in
hand implanted combination
hours and credit card is simply called tattoo - a tattoo.

   He threw the visor - device
the form of points for viewing again on
order, you get out of rooms
and finds himself in an octagonal
Indoors - Palace of Dreams Revellin. Seven doors leading into 
the room for dreams, the eighth - the output. 


   So, you have to Enoch, the city of the planet Eden. Many 
years have passed since the exploits of Kim, Kimberly.

Now her richly called Kim
First, her statue in the original
space suit standing in a museum, and adventures have become 
subject for dreams Revellina. By the way,

it is a statue helped to solve the great question: in 
describing the statue said "her" - "it"; that is Kim

finally and definitely a woman.



   Now Enoch protected domes
by the dangerous flora and fauna of Eden.
The Government is headed by Enoch
Kim A third (or third) - about
Thus you will learn from the newspapers
"Boring Star". You will still be
do not remember anything about the world in which you live. 
From one of dream Revellina you know that now

city ​​ruled by a wise and just the elite, reflecting the 
incessant attacks of Socialists and strangers (Aborigines). It 
controls ordinary people with their

collars.


   Of course, some of these collars
enough to understand that
Enoch was wrong. And the dream of
Worm - is a clear allegory. Well,
to go out and start
straight. Until you
do not know, but you in the dome
entertainment (pleasure dome).

   Take a walk on it. Past you
jog run through the townspeople,
sometimes people will march in
uniform, passing droids are tourists with a robot-guided.
There is a museum where the statue of Kim Kimberly - Kim First,
zoo, recreation hall, a kiosk, a
which you will sell pizza.
That's when you learn, and quite
unpleasant fact of life of Enoch -
all that you can not dress, eat
or something else to use immediately,
store prohibited. Police
Robot - fuzbot - every time
meeting will penalize you for
9 credits for possession of prohibited items.



   Initially you have 100
credits. You can spend 9 of
them on another dream - for it to bid up points. Some money can 
be won at the casino at the one-armed bandit, but the large 
capital so do not make. And do not let you

God caught stealing from a museum
(Do not misunderstand me - theft
make possible and even necessary,
not only fall by the way, council: stealing a leotard - space 
suit, put on his under tradclads, and the police did

will not notice). Fuzbot for theft
fined you a huge amount of
- 500 credits plus 50 "for debt", that is because so many
just not available - and will deliver
the medical center, where you
strongly propose to sell
"Extra" organs to pay debts.


   If this is not enough demand to sell and necessary -
consequences are obvious (in Enoch
it delicately referred to as recycling). Therefore, another tip:
sell extra bodies themselves,
so as not to incur debts. For
it is enough to just come in
Medical Center, and then the consultant will offer all myself. 
By bodies do not get bored - when the rich, you can pay off

them back.


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   "Worm in Paradise" exists
in two variants - pure text and graphics. In my
glance, the graphics have a good Level 9
mainly the possibility of its
disabled, but there is no accounting for tastes.



   True, some information
for thought she tossed: in
location with a fountain drawn
citizens with something suspiciously
reminiscent of the weapon; in the text of
They have no words.



   In Worm'e Level 9 used
brand new building
Dictionary: The program understands all
words appearing in the description
locations. Just a dictionary of about
1000 words. True,
most of them on the "exam" you
get a response like "it does not matter" or "it's just a detail
landscape. "But if the object is essential for the game, you get
a clear detailed answer. Can
enter commands, separated by commas
or use "and". And
if you give, for example, the command "get" and a list of 
further objects separated by a comma, then the whole

this team as any single action will be executed for
enohovskuyu one minute (enohovskom hour 100 minutes) regardless 
of the number of items to be selected. 


   It is very convenient in the museum, where
You can steal three items as
times per minute, until the shield is omitted. The program also
understands the word "all".


   Perhaps this is enough information to start the game. Go in, 
sort it out, explore life in Enoch, and get used to him. 
Recognizing various small details, you'll soon begin to 
understand Enoch and penetrate its atmosphere. As a first task, 
you can try to find out where you live. 


             Good luck!



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