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- MOVIE MOGUL
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- Written by: Anthony Chiang
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- Converted to the C-64 by: Alan Gardner
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- MOVIE MOGUL sets you up as a big
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- cheese producer. The resources of
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- Hollywood are at your disposal. Name
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- stars are clamoring to do your
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- pictures. Scripts are flooding in.
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- What will you do? Which script will
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- benefit from your magic touch? Which
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- stars will you employ? How much money
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- will you spend?
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- What will be the result? Will you
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- make money or lose it? Will your pic
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- have legs or be n.s.g. (not so good,
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- as they say in Daily Variety). Was
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- your casting astute enough to capture
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- some Academy Awards? Will you get
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- rich or go to the poor farm?
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- Here's your big chance to find out
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- the answer to these compelling
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- questions. As they say in the biz,
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- break a leg.
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- SCRIPT
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- At the beginning of the game, you
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- will be handed the scripts to three
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- different movies. Read the
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- descriptions of the scripts carefully
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- and decide which of the three you
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- want to produce.
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- CASTING
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- After selecting a script, you must
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- hire actors to star in your film. A
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- list of twelve available actors and
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- actresses and their salary demands
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- will appear on the screen. You may
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- hire only three of the twelve stars
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- listed. Enter the number next to
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- his name to cast an actor in a
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- specified part.
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- When casting, consider how well an
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- actor/actress is suited for the part.
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- The amount of talent an actor
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- possesses is very important,
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- especially during Oscar time. Also
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- important is the popularity of the
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- stars you hire. A big star will
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- demand a big salary, but he will
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- will attract a big audience.
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- Some parts are restricted by sex
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- while others aren't. Experiment to see
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- which roles can be portrayed by either
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- an actor or an actress.
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- Age should be taken into
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- consideration when casting an actor.
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- However, the make-up men in Hollywood
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- can work their magic to make the old
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- look young and the young look old.
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- PRODUCTION COST
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- The next step is to decide how much
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- you want to spend making your movie.
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- The amount of money you allot for a
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- film directly reflects its quality.
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- A picture with high production
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- quality will normally outperform a
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- cheap, low-budget movie. However,
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- there are times when a small movie
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- makes a huge profit and a big film
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- turns into an expensive failure.
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- The total cost of your film will
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- include the amount you spend on
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- production, the salaries you paid your
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- three stars plus any cost overruns.
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- REVIEWS
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- After your film is shot and before
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- it is released to the public, there
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- will be a special screening for the
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- critics.
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- What the critics say about your film
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- may affect its popularity at the box
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- office. Unfortunately, you have no
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- control over them, so just read 'em
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- and weep.
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- BOX OFFICE
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- Your picture is now ready for wide
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- release. You will see a weekly total
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- and a running grand total of revenues.
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- Some films will have 'legs' and
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- their weekly take will drop very
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- slowly. Other movies may have a big
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- opening week, but then fade away
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- quickly. The smallest amount of
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- revenue a film can generate is
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- $200,000. If that is all your film
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- has made, then you have what we in
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- the Biz call a 'bomb'. Better luck
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- next time.
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- OSCARS
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- No matter how poorly your film did,
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- it will have a chance to win an
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- Academy Award.
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- Taking home an Oscar means an
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- opportunity to re-release your movie.
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- The revenue generated from a
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- re-release could be the difference
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- between making and losing money.
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- HIGH SCORES
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- At the end of the game you will be
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- told how much you made or lost. If
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- you did exceptionally well, you and
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- your film will enter the high score
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- list.
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- A really poor performance will give
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- you the dishonorable distinction of
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- making the low score list. Please be
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- honest and enter your own initials
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- instead of somebody else's.
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- When identical movie titles appear
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- on the high score list along with the
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- same initials, a marker will be added
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- to your name to distinguish between
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- the two different films.
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- HIGH SCORE UTILITY
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- If you'd like to restart with a new
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- high score file, there is a program on
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- the disk that will let you do just
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- that. Simply run the program called
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- 'RESET MM.SCORES'.
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- Good luck! And remember, you're only
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- as good as your last movie!
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- M O V I E M O G U L
- Copyright 1985
- Chiang Brothers Software
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