ZX Club - review of adventure games: Lords of time, Supergran, Tent Circus.

         
                                
                                
         
               
                                
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section "ADVERTISING" ("SL" 
No.1), we are ready for public- 
work on expert ones - 
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Here's how it differs from the novels:
                                
- detailed description of controls
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graphs, afterwords, "dimensions"
calling" the plot, and most importantly -
crazy dialogues, especially with
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 LORDS OF TIME   
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 FIRM: LEVEL 9
                    
   Эту игру  вряд ли
 можно  считать  ше-
 девром   знаменитой
 фирмы, хотя она до-
 статочно интересна.
   Версия  -   чисто
 текстовая.  Начина-
 ется игра  "ПОВЕЛИ-
 тЕЛИ ВРЕМЕНИ"  так:
 You can comfortably dis-
 rely on their
 own home,
conducting a pre-sale inspection
Your latest program.  Outside
suddenly sparkled dazzling
flash...                      
  When your eyes clear up, you
you find yourself in the living room.  
 On the mantel (MANTLEPIE-
CE) are beautiful gold pe-
juicy watch (FINE GOLDEN HOUR-
GLASS), and a portrait hangs on the wall
friendly (seemingly)
rika. Exit from the living room - to the se-
faith (N).  Please note:
the fact that sand
The clock is designed for 1 hour.       
  Consider a portrait (EXAMINE
PICTURE;  you can only dial
first 4 letters of words).  Drawing
turned out to be alive.  The old man reports
othat he is Father Time, and
asks you to help protect the History
ria from 9 sinister Overlords
Time.  You must find 9
items that have a sign on them
hourglass.                 
                                
  After wishing good luck, the old man (and port-
ret) disappears.                  
 Having examined the watch (EXAM HOUR), you
you see how slowly they become
sand is drunk. Taking the watch, we pass
to the north.  It's big and cold here
naya reception room.  On the table
there are boxes of matches (MATCHBOX)
and a candle (CANDLE).  Near the wall
there is a huge grandfather clock
(GRANDFATHER CLOCK) with visible-
with a dial inside.  During the hours
you have to enter (through the door), but
You won’t be able to do this right away.
Let's examine the clock (EXAM CLOCK), it
need a plant.  Let's do it
(WIND CLOCK), and the door opens
Yes. Grabbing matches and a candle,
go inside (IN).             
  The door closes. Inside the gi-
Huge Gant clocks are visible
teeth (HUGE COGS) with applied
on them with numbers and a massive pendulum
nickname (MASSIVE PENDULUM).         
 The numbers on the teeth are zones
Time. It is possible to exit the clock
again only through the door,
and again it does not open. Quality
there is a pendulum (SWING PEND), and the path
free  Go outside and
there's a big stranger in front of you
peace. Remember that time is not
waiting.                           
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 SUPERGRAN 
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AUTHORS: 
 BRIAN HOWARtH 
 JON BLACOW 
                
 You see ne-                 
there is a football field in front of
which has a gate (GOAL
POSTS) and ball (FOOTBALL).        
 The program warns about non-
need to be afraid of something
disgusting CAMPBELL. Rumors
shen someone's cry for help.  Exit
Yes - on N and S.                  
  No need to rush from the fish just yet
the royal impulse to save the
fallen (or caught?) in trouble,
especially since the output will work out
only in the direction S. Let's get busy
better than a football field.  Inspection
fields and available items are nothing
doesn’t give it, so it’s necessary... sy-
play football. We hit the ball but-
goy (KICKBALL).  Hooray!  Scored
goal, and if you do this two more
times, the ball will disappear and
xia MAGICIAN'S TOP HAT (cylinder
magician). In the program message
we are an obvious play on words: HAT TRICK
(3 goals scored per game) and HAT
(hat).                        
 When typing commands related to
cylinder, you can use
word TRICK (the program understands
abbreviations up to 4 letters).        
  But that's not all.  cylinder,
Of course, we’ll pick it up, and then apply
change the force to the gate (for example,
SMASH POSTS). CRRASSHHH, and the top-
front crossbar (GOAL CROSSBAR)
The gate lies on the ground. Let's take her
and let's go to S.                  
                                
  The house is visible here disgustingly
go CAMPBELL.  Listening to
sounds (LISTEN), we find out that
a cry for help comes from the windows
bedrooms.  But that's itattempts to enter
house, and in general to do more
anything so far have been hopeless
peshny. Maybe one of the chi-
Tateley knows what to do in
this situation.                  
 The program dictionary contains no
so many words, moreover,
There are a lot of synonyms for them.  More
it is known that the game has a "vol-
magic word" - ABRACADABRA, it
must be read in some
found note.              
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 TENT CIRCUS    
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 ROLL UP! ROLL UP!
 The circus came to
 genus!               
 A cheerfulbeginning.
We actually see the dome of the sha-
pitot standing in the field and illuminated
washed by moonlight. What are the reasons
may encourage you to come here at night
and what is the meaning of the game is not yet clear-
but... So, what did you manage to do?  
  key - transition from
graphic mode to text mode
and back.  From the field where it stands
awning, the path is possible in the direction
niahS, E, W.  You can also go to
the tent itself, but it’s dark there, and very
soon you will be killed by a crazy clo-
un. Merry circus...         
  To the west of the circus there is
repair trailer. Door, lead-
inside, locked with a key,
I don't have one with me. In the east -
a small fence behind which
generator installed.  He needs
It is under repair because missing
connecting cable.  Apparently
after starting the generator in the circus
light will appear.                  
  Even further to the east, in the field,
we find a shovel (SHOVEL).  Pre-
red, we take it and here we
share (DIG).                     
 The starting handle is dug out
ka (STARTING HANDLE).  We take it away
it (it will be needed to run
generator) and, since further
You can’t go into the field, you can return
we go to the circus, and from there we move
to the south.                          
  There is a road here, but it seems there is no
other way than on N, but -
GO ROAD, and now we are already on the side of the road
no. From there we move to S, where at
roadside site is yours
car.  You can go into it
(GO CAR), and exit it (LEAVE
CAR), there is nothing special there.
  Going south, we find ourselves behind
car, where we see its gas station
hole. From the very beginning you have
I had with me an empty canister for
gasoline (PETROL CAN), keys for
car (CAR KEYS) and pen-
nal knife (PENKNIFE).             
 Check something out -it goes without saying, so on this
Let's take a break here.                
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  Unfortunately, we were unable to
the composition of this issue does not include
one of the games I was talking about
speech in the review.  In general, we are faced
have disappeared with the need to reduce
tit originally conceived
the volume of this number, for the disk,
as you know, “not rubber.”   
                                
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