Genre: | Adventure Game: Text/Illustrated |
Publisher: | Americana |
Cover Art Language: | English |
Machine Compatibility: | BBC Model B, BBC Model B+, BBC Master 128 |
Release: | Professionally released on Cassette |
Available For: | Acorn Electron, Atari 400/800/600XL/800XL/130XE, BBC Model B, Commodore 16, Commodore 64, Dragon 32 & Spectrum 48K/128K |
Compatible Emulators: | BeebEm (PC (Windows)) PcBBC (PC (MS-DOS)) Model B Emulator (PC (Windows)) |
Original Release Date: | 1st August 1986 |
Original Release Price: | £2.99 |
Market Valuation: | £1.61 (How Is This Calculated?) |
Item Weight: | 64g |
Box Type: | Cassette Single Plastic Clear |
Author(s): | Scott Adams, Mak Jukic & Brian Howarth |
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Welcome to The Incredible Hulk, the first instalment in the dynamic Questprobe series!
Marvel Comics and Scott Adams have teamed up to bring you a fantastic series of computer Adventure games that allow you to become your favourite Marvel Super Hero. In this, the opening instalment, you will become the Incredible Hulk, and meet the mysterious overseer of the entire Questprobe Series, the Chief Examiner.
If you've never played an Adventure before, you're in for a real treat. Adventuring permits the player to move at will from location to location within the game "environment" and to examine objects for clues that will reach the objective of the game. For example, an adventure might begin something like this:
I'M IN A ROOM. VISIBLE OBJECTS ARE A RUBY-ENCRUSTED BOX AND A CLOSED DOOR. TELL ME WHAT TO DO.
You might want to begin by entering a direction (North, South, East, West) to see if you can leave the room. Chances are, though, that you will have to find a way to get through the closed door. Let's try something basic. You type:
OPEN DOOR
but the computer tells you in no uncertain terms:
SORRY, IT'S LOCKED. WHAT SHALL I DO?
GET BOX
and the computer responds with:
OK
By saying "OK", the computer has let you know that the command has been accepted and the box "picked up". Now that you're "holding" the box, let's see if we can peek inside. You type:
OPEN BOX
This time the computer understands and you are rewarded with the following response:
OK. INSIDE THERE IS A KEY AND A RARE POSTAGE STAMP.
Since we still want to exit the room, trying the key to unlock the door might be a good idea. The postage stamp might come in handy so you type:
GET KEY AND STAMP
But the computer responds:
SORRY, I CAN'T DO THAT...YET!
Ah yes - asking the computer to get both the key AND the stamp is most definitely a compound command, something that your computer cannot understand. Try again, this time asking for the objects separately. You type:
GET KEY
and then:
GET STAMP
The computer will answer "OK" each time and you will have what you need.
By "getting" the key and the stamp, they are stored for later use as you are, in effect, carrying them. As for your next series of moves, you might want to go to the door (GO DOOR), try the key in the lock (UNLOCK DOOR), and move down the hallway that's just outside. (GO HALLWAY).
You're on your way!
Although the vocabulary accepted by your computer is extensive, you may find the words listed overleaf to be of great help as you set about your Adventure. Remember: These are just a few of the words available.
Climb | Examine | Leave | Move | Quit | Say |
Drop | Go | Light | Pull | Read | Take |
Enter | Help | Look | Push | Save | Hit |
You may use the following single keys to perform a variety of tasks and to expedite playing time. Type the letter for the function you wish to use and press RETURN.
N, S, E, W, U, D | - | Go North, South, East, West, Up or Down |
I | - | Display inventory of items on your person |
L | - | Look |
Saving Your Adventure For Later Play
An Adventure will often last longer than the time available in a single sitting. You may save the game you are playing and return later to take up where you left off. To save a game in progress, type SAVE GAME at any time the "What Shall I Do?" message appears on your screen. You will be asked to specify A, B, C or D. This will allow you to assign a code letter to your game so that you might restore it at a later time.
To restore a saved game, type LOAD GAME before you begin a new game. The computer will ask "Do You Wish To Restore A Saved Game?" Type YES and type the correct code letter (A, B, C or D). The Adventure will resume at the point at which you saved it.
To end a game in progress, type QUIT. If you intend to continue the game later, be sure to save it before using this command.
HULK - Friend | ||
Real name | : | Robert Bruce Banner |
Occupation | : | Ex-Physicist |
Identity | : | Publicly known |
Legal status | : | American citizen with criminal record pardoned |
Former aliases | : | None |
Place of birth | : | Dayton, Ohio |
Marital status | : | Single |
Known relatives | : | Jennifer Walters (aka She-Hulk), cousin; Morris Walters, uncle |
Group affiliation | : | Former member of the Avengers and the Defenders |
Base operations | : | Mobile |
First appearance | : | HULK #1 |
Origin | : | Robert Bruce Banner was a thin, bespectacled nuclear physicist who worked on a Government research facility in New Mexico. Having designed and overseen the construction of a nuclear weapon that had a high gamma radiation output, Banner was among those present in the instrumentation bunker of the test site of the bomb's first above-ground detonation. Observing that a civilian had breached security and entered the restricted test area, Banner told his partner Igor Starsky to delay the countdown while he tried to get the civilian to safety. Starsky, secretly an enemy agent, did nothing, confident that Banner would die in the expolosion and that the project would come to a halt. Reaching the civilian, a teenager named Rick Jones, Banner threw him into a protective trench. Before Banner could get himself to safety, the gamma bomb detonated and, irradiating its inventor with highly charged, radioactive particles. The radiation had a mutigenetic effect on Banner's entire cellular structure, causing him frequently to turn into the vastly powerful, green-skinned superhuman named by the military present at the test site, "The Hulk". |
Height | : | 7' |
Weight | : | 1,040 lbs |
Hair | : | Green |
Eyes | : | Green |
Skin | : | Green |
Powers | : | The Hulk possesses extraordinary superhuman strength, making him perhaps the strongest mortal being ever to walk the Earth. The mutation to his body caused by certain frequencies of gamma radiation fortified his cellular structure and added, in some as yet unknown way, over 800 pounds of bone marrow and tissue to his body. The transformation of Banner into the Hulk is determined by Banner's emotional state, particularly the emotions of rage, fear or stress. Perhaps the most important truism concerning the Hulk: The madder he gets, the stronger he gets.
The Hulk's powerful leg muscles enable him to leap to a height of 3,200 feet and a distance of 1.6 miles. He is capable of lifting 90 tons. Although the Hulk has never been provoked into demonstrating the maximum output of strength, there may well be no upper limit. He has been known to lift over 100 tons, and leap almost three miles. In addition to great strength, the Hulk's body possesses a high degree of imperviousness to injury, pain and disease. The Hulk's skin is capable of withstanding great heat without blistering (up to 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit) and great cold without freezing (down to minus 190 degrees Fahrenheit) and great impacts without a puncture wound or laceration. It is possible to injure him; he could not, for example, survive a near-hit with a nuclear warhead. The Hulk's highly efficient physiology renders him immune to all terrestrial disease. The Hulk's only power apparently not related to his physical attributes is his ability to see astral forms. The nature of this ability is not yet known. |
ANT-MAN - Friend | ||
Real name | : | Dr Henry "Hank" Pyn |
Occupation | : | Former adventurer, biochemist |
Legal status | : | United States' citizen with a conviction for treason that was later overturned |
Place of birth | : | Elmsford, New York |
Known relatives | : | Marie (first wife, deceased), Janet Van Dyne (ex-wife) |
Group affiliation | : | Former member of the Avengers and the Defenders |
First appearance | : | TALES TO ASTONISH #27 |
History | : | Dr Henry Pym, a biochemist with extensive knowledge in other scientific fields, discovered a rare group of subatomic particles, which have become known as the "Pym particles". Pym was able, through the application of magnetic fields, to entrap the particles within two separate serums. One serum would reduce the size of persons and objects, and the other would restore them to their normal size. Eventually, Pym discovered a way to store the serum in gaseous form, which, when used, allows him to shrink or enlarge at will. |
Height | : | 6' |
Weight | : | 185 lbs |
Eyes | : | Blue |
Hair | : | Blond |
Powers | : | As Ant-Man, Pym is able to reduce himself to the size of an ant approximately one-half inch in height. However, his mass remains constant, meaning that a punch delivered by a half-inch-high Ant-Man feels like the blow of a normal sized man.
Among Pym's more dubious accomplishments was the creation of the mad robot Ultron (see below). |
Equipment | : | Ant-Man wears a cybernetic helmet he designed which permits him rudimentary communication with ants. He can broadcast up to one mile depending upon the materials surrounding him. |
DOCTOR STRANGE - Friend | ||
Real name | : | Stephen Strange |
Occupation | : | Surgeon (retired), occult expert |
Legal status | : | American citizen wih no criminal record |
Identity | : | Publicly known |
Other current titles | : | Sorcerer Supreme |
Formal aliases | : | Stephen Sanders |
Place of birth | : | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Marital status | : | Single |
Known relatives | : | None |
Group affiliation | : | Occasionally associates with the Defenders |
Base operations | : | 177A Bleecker Street, New York City |
First appearance | : | STRANGE TALES |
Origin | : | Stephen Strange was a brilliant, ambitious and somewhat arrogant neurosurgeon whose meteroric career was tragically cut short in an automobile accident. Strange sustained minor nerve damage which prevented him from holding a scalpel steady enough to perform delicate surgery. He invested a fortune in attempted curers and fraudulent doctors and saw it dwindle to nothing. He swiftly degenerated from recluse to drifter to drunken derelict. Then Strange heard of a learned man in Tibet known only as The Ancient One who could supposedly work miracles. Determined to find this miracle man, he made his way across the ocean and then the frozen wastes of the Himalayan Mountains.
Strange finally located The Ancient One. The aged sorcerer told him he would only consider helping Strange if the erstwhile surgeon proved himself worthy. Eventually, Strange proved himself worthy and became The Ancient One's disciple. He learned the arcane secrets of sorcery and, in time, returned to America to set up shop in Greenwich Village in New York City. |
Height | : | 6' 2.5" |
Weight | : | 180 lbs |
Eyes | : | Grey |
Hair | : | Black with white streaks |
Powers | : | As Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, Doctor Strange possesses a greater knowledge and mastery of the arts of magic than anyone else on Earth. Strange's magic, like most magicians, is derived from three major sources : personal powers of the soul/mind/body (mesmerism, astral projection, thought casting, etc.), powers gained by tapping this universe's ambient magical energy and employing it for special effects (transportation, illusion, casting, energy projection), and finally, powers gained through the tapping of extra-dimensional energy by invoking entities or objects of power dwelling in mystical dimensions, tangential to our own. Strange also employs a number of occult power-objects which he wields by mental control. |
Weapons | : | Besides his array of magical powers, Strange wields three major occult power-objects. The first of these is his Cloak of Levitation which enables his physical form to fly at moderate speeds (approximately 25 miles per hour) for indeterminate lengths of time. While Strange can levitate without the Cloak, the Cloak enables to fly with no personal expenditure of magical energy. The second power is the Eye of Agomotto, an amulet which grants him certain mystical perceptions such as the ability to divine the truth by gazing into another man's soul. Residing in his Greenwich Village mansion is the Orb of Agomotto, a crystal ball attuned to the mystical forces of the Earth. Through the Orb, Doctor Strange keeps constant vigil against the dark forces of the universe. |
ULTRON - Foe Ultron is a robot possessing the capacity for creative intelligence and self-repair who has become a menace to humankind. Originally designed by Dr Henry Pym (at that time known as Goliath), the prototype Ultron-1 was non-humanoid, consisting og one large torso/head on tank treads with two slender limbs. Shortly after its completion, the robot developed an irrational hatred of its creator and tried to destroy him. Humbling Pym, Ultron-1 hypnotized him to forget his robotic creation and evicted Pym from his own private laboratory so it could undertake its own re-modification process. Ultron proceeded to design subsequent bodies. The end result was Ultron-5, a humanoid robot with a body constructed of adamantium, an alloy which, once hardened, can withstand a nuclear blast. Over the years of its existence, Ultron has augmented his adamantium body with additional offensive weaponry, including an "encephalo beam", high power concussion blasters, tractor and pressor beams, an induction device that was able to absorb energy from Iron Man's armor, and a molecular rearranger able to shape admantium. Ultron is physically and mentally far superior to man. Its hatred of humankind and capacity for survival makes it an ever-present threat to human life.
NIGHTMARE - Foe
Nightmare's ultimate goal is to expand his dimension into the waking world by occult means, perhaps overcoming the spirit of Eternity itself. Nightmare has but one natural enemy in all the dimensions; the creature Gulgol, who never sleeps.
THE CHIEF EXAMINER - ?
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Be sure to examine the items you find during your Adventure. Also, keep in mind that most problems and solutions require no more than common sense to solve; special knowledge and information are rarely required. For example, if an area is too dark to see in, you are going to need a light in order to avoid disaster.
If you get stuck, type HELP and press RETURN. You may or may not recieve assistance, depending on what you are carrying, where you are at and a number of other factors. Too, be careful about making assumptions - they can be fatal!
Finally, if you are seriously stuck, special Hint books are available from Adventure International (U.K.). Call (021) 643 5102 for ordering information.
Here is a sample to show you how to get started in the game Hulk and how the Hint Book can save you hours of frustration while you are having fun solving the adventure.
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