MERLIN #2
APRIL 1985
This month: Wheel of Fortune, Stranded, Ring of Time, Adventureland, Quest for the Holy Grail.
I've had a lot of letters (well, eight actually) from readers who can't get started with Epic's Wheel of Fortune. So this month I shall try and tell you how to do it - without telling you how to do it - if you know what I mean.
But first let me repeat something I said last month. Please enclose an s.a.e. if you want an immediate answer.
It takes time to get a magazine on the stands, time that you will spend waiting if you don't enclose an s.a.e.
Many readers have written in asking about Countdown to Doom. Although I have managed to get a couple of hours playing it I have not yet received a review copy. Never fear, I shall review it as soon as it arrives.
Other things to look out for are reviews of all the Scott Adams' adventures, including the one that started it all, Adventureland.
Back to Wheel of Fortune. To tell you exactly how to get down the well would require more space than I have available. I shall have to be brief and let you fill in the gaps.
The main thing to remember is that the characters move independently of you - but only to a point.
Search everywhere, collect everything but make sure you leave the gilded truncheon north of the crossroads before going west for the ladder.
You'll have to befriend the beggar because you need help to get down the well once you have got the bucket.
Give the beggar the coin on his return trip from the machine. Once he has gone, get the coin from the cup, get the matches then get the beggar to follow you.
Use the ladder to get the bucket and go to the well.
To go down the well get the beggar to help you but then be very PATIENT. The exact sequence is: Get coin, befriend beggar, get matches, search everywhere, collect everything, go to the well and you are off. Hope that helps.
Incidently, I haven't been able to do very much down the well so I'd appreciate any tips, maps or advice that you'd care to offer.
Right. Problem corner now - see you next month!
S. Lurie can't get into the spaceship in Superior's Stranded: Get the parachute in the forest, find a place to use it, get the rifle and shoot the robot. You should have four objects by now - if you have you can get in and also finish the game.
T. Reay cannot get past the crocodiles in Kansas's Ring of Time: Ugh! Kill, then mutilate the dog.
M. Byrom wants to know where the keys are in Adventureland: Have you been up the tree?
P. Murtogh wants to know if the
swamp leads anywhere in Epic's Quest for the Holy Grail: Yes!
You PLANK.
This article appeared in the April 1985 edition of the "Electron User", published by Database Publications.
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