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Genre: | Adventure Game: Graphic |
Publisher: | Bug Byte |
Cover Art Language: | English |
Machine Compatibility: | Spectrum 48K, Spectrum 128K |
Release: | Professionally released on Cassette |
Available For: | Amstrad CPC464, Commodore 64 & Spectrum 48K/128K/+2 |
Compatible Emulators: | ZXSpin (PC (Windows)) Nutria (PC (MS-DOS)) |
Original Release Date: | 20th May 1984 |
Original Release Price: | Unknown |
Market Valuation: | £2.50 (How Is This Calculated?) |
Item Weight: | 64g |
Box Type: | Cassette Single Plastic Clear |
Author(s): | - |
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The bugs and a lack of a save option are unforgivable these days. Read Review
A curious hybrid of arcade hybrid of arcade and traditional adventure, yet I didn't find the game inspiring either in gameplay or presentation. Read Review
The inability to save your position just before an untimely deaths results in much monotonous repetition of routes you've already mastered. Read Review
A curious mixture of adventure and arcade game. Some good puzzles should give it some appeal. Read Review
There's an option to talk to other characters, but with moving graphics to take care of you can imagine the parser's not exactly Level 9. Read Review
By dispensing with the mapping aspect and concentrating on the puzzles, Grange Hill proves to be an enjoyable game with a few surprises in store. Read Review
You really don't appear to have any choice - if it's:
...then it has to be school!
She still hasn't forgiven you for having your first walkman stolen. It wasn't your fault that some swine stole it from the staff room after it had been confiscated during a maths lesson. Now she asks to see it every night when you get home - you sometimes think that you could return home direct from the hospital with two broken legs and her first words would be - "Where's your cassette player ?" Does anyone understand parents?
The basic plan is to bet into the staff room and then steal the walkman back before going home to your mum. It's going to need a little planning though and you had better get some help too. Hollo is bound to help you - isn't he? Problem is that he's always complaining and might bottle out at any time. You'll just have to try to keep him happy.
The rest of the difficulties you find will be minor compared to braving your Mum - it's all a matter of a little thought and brilliant flashes of inspiration. There's bound to be everything you need somewhere around the school - it's a right dump you know.
You'd better get going - your mum is expecting you home and you can't return any later than midnight under any circumstances.
Grange Hill: The Computer Game is an adventure game with a difference! Instead of entering the tedious GO NORTH, GO WEST type instructions you control Gonch by moving a joystick or pressing movement keys. This makes the game fast and fun to play but still gives you the puzzle and strategy elements that are present in most good adventures.
Other commands common to adventures, such as EXAMINE, USE and PICK UP, can be selected from a drop down menu. This means that the only time you ever have to type commands is when you want to talk to another player or use an object in a particular way.
Load Grange Hill by following the instructions printed on the cassette or disk label. To start the game you press FIRE and the first location will appear.
The screen has two windows, the top window shows Gonch (you), and other characters on that screen and any objects that you might need later. The lower window gives a description of the location and displays anything said by other characters in the screen.
You can move Gonch by using a joystick or the keyboard. If you move towards the left, right or top edge of the screen a new location will appear. You climb up objects to get to the top of the screen.
If you want another character e.g. Hollo, to follow you from one screen onto another you must wait for them to catch up with you.
Press the Fire key or button and a menu will drop into the lower screen. This will display the following options:
Pick Up - Drop - Examine - Use - Take - Give - Talk - Exit Menu
You can select the action you wish to take by pressing keys or moving the joystick until the arrow highlights are indicating your choice. Pressing fire then activates that option.
The lower right of the screen displays you game time clock. This always starts at 15:50 and the game ends if this clock goes beyond midnight. Please note that one game minute takes 15 seconds i.e. time runs four times faster than reality.
To find the confiscated walkman and then return home before midnight with it. If you return home without the walkman you loose the game. There are also several other ways of ending the game and having to start again. You have been warned!
O - Left, P - Right, Q - Up/Jump, A - Down (Menu Only), End Text - CAPS SHIFT-1, M - Menu Down
LOAD"" (ENTER)
128K owners use the Loader option (and enjoy the AY music).
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A digital version of Grange Hill suitable for ZXSpin (PC (Windows)), Nutria (PC (MS-DOS)) |
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