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Hijack
2004 OCRed by Wilko Schröter
URK 609/IN1
 SPECTRUM SCREENS
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
FABRIQUE EN GRANDE BRETAGNE
© ELECTRIC DREAMS SOFTWARE 1986
ELECTRIC DREAMS SOFTWARE, 31 CARLTON CRESCENT
SOUTHAMPTON SO1 2EW. TEL (0703) 229694
A new concept in games. HIJACK is a skilful combination of arcade, strategy and simulation.
The game sets up in charge of a Pentagon department, the Hijack Division, dedicated to stamping
out terrorism by peaceful means. HIJACK is played using live action and complex windowing
techniques as you fight a desperate struggle against bureaucracy to end hijacking before all hell is
let loose. 
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OBJECT OF THE GAME
The object of HIJACK is to defeat the terrorists
who have hijacked a vehicle. (1) raise enough
money to pay them off (2) raise enough political
power to persuade them to give in or (3) raise a
large enough military force to scare them into
submission.
GAME PLAY
You have been placed in charge of the Hijack
Division, a government department which is
dedicated to stamping out terrorism by peaceful
means.
Familiarise yourself with the layout of your
offices and the people who are working for and
with you, then you set about the task of
directing them and finding out more about the
terrorists, raising support and finance, keeping
on good terms with the President and the press,
and keeping ahead of the terrorists deadline
which is slowly ticking down. There are many
different strategies you can adopt when playing
this game, both in your approach to the terrorists
and your approach to your staff. Remember to
keep an eye on the Washington Post and check
through your employee files to keep tabs on
who is supporting you and who is trying to
undermine your position. To succeed you
will need to use every employee to their
fullest potential and keep on top of the
power struggle in the Division.
Once you think you are ready to defeat the
terrorists then you will need to seek out the
President to get permission to take the
helicopter to the scene of the hijack to
negotiate with the terrorists. If you are
successful in your negotiations your future in
the Division will be assured; that is until the
next hijack. You may even be in line for a
medal! However, if you fail, you will lose
your job altogether and the game will end.
Hijack will run on the Spectrum 48K,
Spectrum+ and Spectrum 128K. Load the
program with LOAD ""
CONTROLS
The program is controlled by either joystick
or keyboard which is redefinable. Upon
loading you are given the chance to select
either keyboard or one of the following
joystick interfaces: Kempston, Interface II,
cursor control or Fuller. You will then be
asked to define keys for pick up and pause.
Keyboard users will also be asked to define
keys for up, down, left, right and fire. 
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The controls function as follows:
 Left - Move your character left.
 Right - Move your character right.
 Up - Move pointer forward through
employees/icon windows.
 Down - Move pointer backward through
employees/icon windows.
 Fire - Pull down a menu relating to
employee/icon.
 Pick up - Pick up icon from bottom left
window.
 Pause - Pause game.
If a pulled down menu contains a pointer then
the up, down, left and right keys are used to
guide the pointer around the menu, with fire
used to select any highlighted option. With no
pointer present the up, down and fire keys will
cause the menus to disappear.
THE SCREEN LAYOUT
Starting from top left the information panel runs
as follows:
1. Time left before the hijackers deadline. (And
end of game.)
2. Below this are 2 arrows marked 'lift'. These
indicate whether there is a lift waiting to the
left or right of the screen. (They will flash
white/cyan.)
3. Your staff. Running from left to right they
are: The President, military adviser, political
adviser, FBI agent, CIA agent, military
assistant, political assistant, publicity officer,
financial officer and secretary. They are
normally coloured red, but light up white
when the character is in the same room as
you.
4. Bottom left displays anything you may use in
the office as you walk past it, in the form of a
small icon.
5. Bottom right displays the icon of anything
you are carrying with you.
6. The 3 bar graphs in the bottom centre of
the screen display your current military,
financial and political power, and include
a + or - indicator to effectively double the
range of each graph.
THE CHARACTERS
The department is configured as follows (in
order of importance) a character further up
the 'tree' than another will always be able to
order a lower ranking character to do a job
for him/her.
The president - The secretary
The FBI agent - You - The military adviser -
The political adviser
The CIA agent - The military assistant - The
political assistant
The publicity officer - The financial officer
THE PRESIDENT
The president answers to no one, and may
give orders to any other character. He is the
only character in the game who may fire
you. You may request the following from
him:
1. Transport:
 If he considers you ready he will give you
permission for you and other characters to
use the helicopter, by giving you the 3
digit code which will open the door
leading to the helicopter pad.
2. Deadline extension:
 The president will talk with the hijackers
with the view to extending the hijackers
deadline. This will normally result in a
penalty of increased demands from them.
3. Support:
 The president will give you his backing to
either military, political or financial
support. This may only be requested a
few times, and the amount of support will
be greater if you stick to one of the three
departments for him to back. 
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THE FBI AGENT
The FBI agent is responsible for keeping an eye
on what is happening to both the offices and to
your employees. To aid both you and him he
regularly compiles FBI reports on each
employee, and allows you to access them. You
may order him to do the following:
1. Question employee:
 The FBI agent will seek out the selected
employee and take him/her down to his
office for questioning, during which time the
character is effectively taken out of the game.
However that character will then be far less
loyal to you.
2. Return to his office.
3. Fire him.
THE CIA AGENT
The CIA agent is responsible for intelligence
gathering, especially on the hijackers demands,
motives and weaknesses. You may order him to
do the following:
1. Research hijackers:
 You will be given a choice of a 3, 8 or 12
minute report. For the 3 minute report you
will receive details of their demands, for an 8
minute report you will also receive details of
other bargaining tactics which may work, and
for the 12 minute report you will also find
out who the hijackers are working for.
2. Return to his office.
3. Fire him.
THE MILITARY AND
POLITICAL ADVISERS
These two employees are of equal status to you,
but will always obey your orders. Both are very
experienced in their own fields, and may be
ordered to do the following:
1. Go to hijack:
 You may select up to 2 people to travel to
the hijack with you. Taking an employee
with you will help in seeking the right
solution to the hijack. Once the adviser
has entered the helicopter you can no
longer issue an order to him.
2. Help assistant:
 Although the assistants do most of the
work in each department, the advisers
may be employed to help the assistants, in
which case the relevant power will
increase depending on the combined
experiences of the 2 employees together.
3. Return to his/her office.
4. Fire him.
THE POLITICAL/MILITARY
ASSISTANTS
These are the people who do most of the
work in raising political and military power.
They are always in competition with each
other, and will each try to swing the support
towards their own departments. The rate at
which they raise power is determined both
by their experience and by their loyalty to
you. They are also in charge of sending
troops or diplomats out to the hijack (under
your control). The assistants will only carry
out their work while they are not carrying
out any other orders, and so by keeping them
busy or not you can partially control both
military and political power. You may order
them to do the following:
1. Deploy military forces/diplomats:
 You may use this to deploy diplomats to
reason with the hijackers, or troops to
frighten them into giving up the hijack.
2. Return to their offices.
3. Fire them. 
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THE PUBLICITY OFFICER
The publicity officer is responsible for giving
information out to the press, arranging tv
interviews etc. Good press is important to the
president, and if it gets very bad he may fire
you. The press reports are carried by the
Washington Post, which is published regularly
throughout the hijack. Through, this paper will
be headlines varying from the very good to the
very bad. You may order the publicity officer to
do the following:
1. Issue a press release:
 This must be done periodically to ensure that
the press will not start to print bad reports
about the department (especially the
president). There are 3 types of press release,
each more effective than the last: (a) A press
handout. The cheapest, and least effective.
Best near the end of the deadline, when there
will be little time for the press to become
critical. (b)A press briefing. More expensive
but more effective than (a). (c) A TV
appearance. The most effective and most
expensive. Good for a quick boost to
flagging press relationships.
2. Return to her office.
3. Fire her.
THE FINANCIAL OFFICER
The financial officer is responsible for raising
money from different sources both inside and
outside the department. The money is needed
not only for the bargaining with the hijackers,
but also for departmental uses, such as press
releases. You may give him the following
orders:
1. Raise funds fast:
 This order is useful in raising large amounts
of cash very quickly, and can be useful when
the deadline is short. The money however, is
obtained by borrowing money from both the
military and political supporters, and so may
damage both the loyalty and power of both
departments.
2. Raise funds slowly:
 This is more useful in producing a steady
flow of money over a longer period of
time. Although the money is still obtained
from both the military and political
departments, the sums are smaller and so
less noticeable. This means you can
(almost) keep everyone loyal to you.
3. Go to hijack. See military/political
adviser.
4. Return to his office.
5. Fire him.
THE SECRETARY
The secretary is responsible for information
flow between the various employees, and as
such is only answerable to the president. She
can be made to take people to your room,
and will be given instructions to give to you.
(Usually about orders completed etc.) She
may be given the following orders:
1. Find an employee:
 Any employee may be found and she will
then tell that character to go up to your
room and wait. Whether that character
does so will depend on what he/she is
doing at the time, and how loyal they are
to you.
2. Return to her office.
GENERAL
1. When a menu is pulled down, only those
options in BOLD type may be selected
and acted on. The others (in shadow)
cannot be selected at the present time.
2. Certain icons which appear in the bottom
left hand box may be picked up using the
pick up key. They will then be moved to
the right hand window. 'Picking up' a bin
will cause the contents on the right hand
window to be thrown in the bin. 
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3. Other icons (esp. the terminals) need a 3 digit
security code to be typed in on the keypad
before the icon can be used. These codes can
be found out by studying notice boards,
papers on a desk, or may be given to you by
certain characters.
4. Entering pause mode will allow you to do the
following:
 (a) QUIT the game. (restart)
(b) CONTinue with current game.
(c) Turn sound on or off. (tick=on,
cross=off)
(d) Turn room names on or off.
(e) Alter the background colours of the
rooms. Select the number of the colour
you wish to change (eg. to change red
rooms select number 2 [2=red on
keyboard]) and press the fire button until
the desired colour appears next to the
number. The colour change will become
effective when you leave the current
room.
(f) Reset the room colours to their original
state. Move the cursor over the word
'PALETTE' and press fire.
5. The lifts move up and down the floors
automatically. No intervention is needed
(or possible). Simply get in when the lift
is at your floor (hopefully when the lift
door will be open) and then remain in the
lift reaches the desired floor. You can get
out simply by moving left or right from
the lift.
THE END GAME
Once the President has given you the code to
open the door to the helicopter pad you may
travel to the hijack. Once at the hijack you
may then use anything you are carrying with
you, or select from the menu obtainable from
the bottom left of the screen. This will allow
you to bring up their demands, look at a
picture of the hijack or get a status report.
You may also return to the office. A further
menu will (hopefully) allow you to give
money etc. to the hijackers, or to send in
troops. Note that while you are at the hijack
all the characters in the offices will continue
to walk about, act on the orders you gave
them etc.