Games - HERO QUEST

HERO QUEST
  by GREMLINS GRAPHICS (C) 1990

    In this game you find yourself in
fairy tale world of fairy tales, a world where
ruled by magicians and layered kings, where
a lot of good and evil.
    You have to prove everything
to the world that you are a real hero or
disappear into the darkness of history.
    First of all, you are extremely
THE RIGHT COMPANY IS NEEDED:
warrior, gnome, elf, sorcerer.
The most representative of them
sorcerer: he has a rich set
weapons in the form of a spell.
    To find out your strength and
Powers you have to go through
many levels and who
return from them alive
STRONGEST.
    This game has some
nice feature: you can
start from any level, and
also pass it
unlimited number of times.  to you
even given the opportunity
revive any hero and play
im already from the next next
level. No matter how it may seem
strange, level selection works
only in cassette versions, with
someone removed the adaptations to disk
such a nice feature.
    For those who like to cheat games
in someone's footsteps we lead to
tab in the middle of the magazine
Spectromania maps of all levels,
except for the first one (that's the one you
you'll probably get through it yourself).
    The game is very nice and it's a pity
that there are so many games on the Spectrum,
who take away their attention.

    Game management and others
           details
    After downloading,and also
after passing any of
levels is displayed on the menu screen.
To select a menu item:
by pressing K and I, move
light pointer to
the inscription you are interested in and
press the N key. Inside the submenu
you can also move
up and down and also
left-right by pressing the X KEYS
and C. (After the game starts mono
change the control keys, but
We'll talk about this later.  )
MENU items allow you to select:
PLAY GAME              
start games
BUE EQUIPMENT          
buy equipment
CREATE CHARACTERS      
create characters
LOAD OTHER             
upload something else 

     Let's look at the menu items
          in more detail:
    LOAD OTHER If you select this
item you can upload any
another game that has
BASIC loader, HEROQUEST at
this is deleted from memory.  B
cassette version loading
the first program encountered, in
disk version starts
BOOT.
    You can refuse
downloads in a timely manner by clicking on
BREAK KEY
    CREATE CHARACTERS.   After
the death of a hero you can
restore it. The truth is all his
there will be merit and money
irretrievably lost (of course
if you did not save the situation on
disk).    Here you can also
give the character a new name,
save its data on disk
or cassette, as well as count or
record information withdisk or
cassettes. By pressing VIN you shift
light pointer.    By selecting
the character can be pressed to the right,
will it revive him or, conversely,
will kill.    Press again
will return it to its previous state.
    By clicking on the shot below
MENU appears: set a name,
save or restore data
about the character. To exit menu
you should select a sub-item
download and then just
refuse to download.
    BYE EQUIPMENT. By choosing this
point you can invest profitably
the money found, as well as
buy something for emergency
earned.          Moving
up-down should be selected
character.    Automatically you
you will see the items he has
already there.  PRESSING THE KEY
"action" you can start
purchase purchases by moving
pointer and clicking on the shot.
The higher the higher, the more useful the item and
the more effective it is in action.
You can buy everything for everyone
items (if you find
a suitable wallet), but a sorcerer
(WIZARD) can only buy
STAFF (such weapons) and TOOLKIT
(reference book[sort of]). All purchases
reflected at the top
screen.
    PLAY GAME.  Going into it
substitution, you are approaching the most
interesting and spicy (interesting
what were you thinking?) parts of the game.
From the very beginning you should choose
spells that you can get
sorcerer and elf (ELF).  Sorcerer
other than these selected spells
there will behave many more
their permanent spells.
There are spells: water
(WATER SPELLS), fiery (FIRE)
SPELLS), volatile (FLY SPELLS) and
earthen (EARTH SPELLS)
    After which you can choose
mission (game level) and
start...

    We hope that you have already
launched the game and it flickered
"something" one of yours
characters.     Top left
the number that means changes
the number of your moves.  Clicking on
Vestrel you will stop the cycle
numbers and decide your fate.
But you can press watch
Sinclair or Kempston joystick and
thereby changing control.
Remember that control can be
change only when the figure
the little man flickers.
    Should now appear
arrow and you can go to
specific actions, otherwise
impatient reader probably
has already started to yawn.    (Here
should have been small
excursion into art history and
ZX screen area structure
Spectrum, because they pay me for
about it, but we will refrain from
this.)
    Moving the arrow to
the square that interests you and
By clicking on "action" you will ask
that unkempt gentleman
go exactly there. Uncombed
the gentleman may not go there,
if the squares are where he stands and
the location square is located
not on the same line.  Mister
may also not go if
the moves are over,although this is already
strange.
    UNDERSTAND THE BASIC
let's move on to the main details
little things. At the bottom of the screen is
many different pictograms,
which we will not describe,
the reader will guess about them
appointment himself. (Joke)
    Every Joke has a part
truth, because with pictograms
really figure it out
simple.  Leftmost icon
with a picture of the key is used for
opening doors. To the door
opened, you should stand just
opposite the door. After opening
door before entering it
you should look around with help
map pictograms so as not to
run into something
nuisance.
    NEXT pictogram
is a portrait
character with an arrow.   This one
drawing is required for transfer
move to another player.
    Pictogram with image
eyes means looking around the room.
By selecting this menu item you
you can find something nice
for example, a bag of money or a hole, in
which you could fall down.
    NEXT pictogram
is an application
items and spells.   This
part is somewhat complicated and we
Let's devote a few lines to it below.
    Arrow icons can be used
choose the direction of movement,
although in my opinion it’s easier to do it
make the cursor as it was
described above.
    Next is the pictogram with
images of the manuscript by selecting
you will see himmaze map,
more precisely, the places where you
visited or which you can see from
YOUR place. Moving the cursor to
location you are interested in
can you find out what's there
be.
    Latest pictogram
with the image of a sword -
battle pictogram. By choosing it, you
you can kill the enemy.
It should be noted that the enemy
should be in the next cell,
so as not to just spend
move.
    Pictograms of combat, spells
and inspection of the room you can choose
only once per turn. At the same time
They may also take it away from you
remaining moves.   According to this
We recommend spending it first
all your moves.
    Now let's describe the substitution
spells.    By choosing it you
you will see many windows,
IDENTIFYING YOUR EQUIPMENT:
POTION drinks
ITEM items
SPELL spells
ARMOR Protection and stuff
WEAPON weapons
    If you have something, then it is
appears in one of these
windows  By moving the cursor and clicking on
shot you turn it on
use. It should be reported
that drinks do not go with
level by level and you will have them
It's better to use it in advance.
    All spells are divided into
bad and good.  KNOWLEDGE
English, not only FUCK and
SHIT will be able to figure it out themselves, and for
the rest so as not to translate
We will give advice on all names. Bad
spells affect everyone (not
which are at a distance), and good ones
onlyon the enemy. Taking advantage
With this knowledge you can quickly
learn all spells.  To
the spells worked necessary
select them from the list, then
a map will appear.  Select on
who will the spell be directed to?
and click to shoot.
    Now you should drop a couple
lines about the art of combat.
Actually no
art and no: focused on
enemy, pressed the shot, and
Fate will decide everything next.  But
after that portraits are issued
fighting and some data,
which should be explained. First
number: the number of your bodies, that is
lives. Next comes your power,
i.e. how many bodies will you take from
opponent in case of victory. Below
everyone is depicted in
symbolically we see the force of the impact and
Defense against a blow.
You should be especially happy
if you see a message ENEMY
ATTACK FAILED
failed) and cry if
YOU WILL SEE THE MESSAGE... IS DEAD
(someone died).  It should also
try to retreat from the room,
if you haven't won the battle, so that
the enemy did not kill you with his
on the move.
    Yes, we forgot to report
numbers at the top of the main screen.
The name is indicated at the very top
character.   Then comes the number
lives, his power, cash
money and number of moves.
    So you can pester
game, we hope you
you can with some details
figure it out yourself.   It's notI wonder when you're done
They'll chew it and add cards.


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