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- HOSTAGE
- by
- Allan Porter
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- The scenario behind Allan Porter's
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- text adventure will be disturbingly
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- familiar to most of us: a gang of
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- five urban terrorists has invaded a
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- bank president's home and has taken
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- the banker hostage. Unless the
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- terrorists receive ransom and are
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- granted asylum within the hour, they
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- will execute their hostage.
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- The character that you play in the
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- adventure is a cop who also happens
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- to be a longtime friend of the captive
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- banker. The Chief of Police has given
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- you one hour to infiltrate the house,
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- take out the terrorists, and free your
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- friend. And if five-to-one odds are
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- not enough, one of the rooms of the
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- house is booby-trapped.
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- A TEXT ADVENTURE PRIMER....
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- Like all text adventures, Hostage
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- works by giving you a printed
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- description of of your surroundings.
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- To interact with the surroundings,
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- you must type in commands. To go
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- east, for example, you would type in
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- "E". The commands used in Hostage
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- are displayed when you first begin
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- your adventure. If you are
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- unfamiliar with the game, it would be
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- a good idea to write them down for
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- later reference. The amount of time
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- and the number of "hit points" you
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- have left are displayed at all times
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- while you are playing.
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- "Hit points" represent the number
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- of times your character may be
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- wounded before he is killed. The
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- toughness of your character is
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- determined by chance at the beginning
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- of the game. You also choose the
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- level of difficulty (1-3) at the
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- beginning of the game. (The more
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- difficult the game, the longer it
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- takes you to move from room to room
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- in your search for the banker).
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- One hint for Hostage -- you must
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- kill all five terrorists before you
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- are credited with a "win" even if you
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- successfully rescue the bank
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- president.
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- And one more hint-- as with most
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- text adventure games, making a map of
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- the surroundings will make things go
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- much smoother-- a map will save you
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- valuable time when you have to
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- backtrack in your search of the house.
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- Even with a map, though, your
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- mission will never be a piece of
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- cake: the location of the terrorists,
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- the hostage-- and the booby-trapped
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- room-- change with each game. But
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- what would-be hero would have it any
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- other way?
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- DISK FILES USED: HOSTAGE BOOT
- HOSTAGE.SHP
- HOSTAGE
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