Introduction

You're about to enter the Deadly Labyrinth of evil Lord Xyrx.

You don't have to eat all the items but in every level you *must* collect five blue keys to unlock all the doors to the next chambers.

Achtung: Avoid the monsters - They will kill you instantly!

The bleak castle of Lord Xyrx awaits you!! BEWARE!!!! The game contains 9 full-screen levels of a maze.

Works also on any Spectrum machine with minimum 48kb of RAM.

Game Controls

O - Left, P - Right, Q - Up, A - Down

Press R on the red screen to redefine da keys.

A Word From Yerzmyey

Heh, I remember we were making such games in late 80s, with our first coder - Mr Hangman. :)

Of course without AY music (there was no SoundTracker yet, and AY-interfaces were expensive, especially for reeeeeeally young teenagers :) ). There were only some simple BEEPs in those games. Also the progs were mostly monochromatic because Hangman had only black and white TV-set. :) :)

But yes - the games looked similar; I even designed the protagonist in almost the same way we were doing it back in the days. :) :)

I remember our "Ghost eating" and other labyrinth games that sadly haven't survived to contemporary times, :) since 1986-1988 (before we started to make some first shitty demos in 1989 ;) ). So - here is a monument of those times and those programs. :)

As for the RetroKomp party: we decided to put the game into RetroKomp's "Retro Game Compo". There was actually some misunderstanding 'though.

As you may know, there are tens of new games on ZX Spectrum, year by year.

Mostly they're highly advanced in a graphic and coding way. Usually they're better than the commercial games that have been released in the Golden Era of ZX.

That's why from time to time Sinclair users make some simple games in the early 80's style, to get some old-school feeling too.

Hence - we made the game - and decided to stick it into the RetroKomp's "Retro Game Compo", as we thought it's a Compo for Retro Games. Finally Mr. Mccnex put us out of our miserable mistake, explaining that the compo is about Games for all Retro Computers. ;)

But it was too late - the game entered the compo and Mccnex kept it tightly in his dirty hands and didn't want to let it go. ;)

So - here it is, competing with games for Amiga and so on, where people wanted to make as good game as possible. ;)

Ah well. Enjoy the Retro Games' spirit of early 80's Sinclair labyrinth productions!

Yerz, 19.08.2013

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Game Credits

Script, graphic, levels, fonts and music by Yerzmyey Interrupts Engine: Gasman Moral Support and Cover Art/Inlay by R-TAPE Based on CGD.

Copyright 08.2013 by HOOY-PROGRAM.