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- Path: sparky!uunet!meaddata!johnt
- From: johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Out of This World "features"
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 16:02:50 GMT
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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- Well, I finally finished "Out Of This World," and I am truly impressed. It'd
- be nice if it were longer, but there are enough challenging obstacles in it to
- make it last awhile and make it fun to play again. In the course of playing
- it, though, I think I ran into a couple of programming bugs.
-
- <Fair warning: I'll try to avoid spoilers, but stop here if you're a purist.>
-
- The first one happens every time, but doesn't significantly affect game play.
- There are two levels, one above the other, on which you can cross the waterfall.
- However, if you've done everything that you're supposed to in the caverns, the
- first time you cross on the LOWER level you mysteriously wind up on the next
- screen on the other side of the UPPER level, with your buddy crawling below you.
- If you go back the way you came, you find yourself on the upper level instead
- of the lower level, and have to go all the way back to the stairs and cross
- again to get to the room with the chandeliers.
-
- The second one happens occasionally, and requires a restart. Near the end,
- after the guard catches you as you are falling off the building and kicks you
- into the next room, when the guard walks into the room, you are no longer there!
- He and your buddy duke it out and there's nothing you can do. If you hit 'C'
- and re-enter the save code (or any other save code, I think) the scene you
- arrive at is messed up (e.g. there are no, uh, babes at the pool). This only
- happened occasionally to me, when I was dying repeatedly in that room.
-
- Another curiosity is the four or so variously-colored dots in the upper left
- corner of every screen. Has anyone figured out their significance yet?
-
- --
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