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File contents
Product: COUNTDOWN TO DOOM
Supplier : TOPOLOGIKA, PO Box 39, Stilton, PETERBOROUGH PE7 3RL
Available on 3.5" DFS Disk
Reviewed by (the) Dave in EUG 54
NOT the Acornsoft ROM cartridge version, Peter Killworth's COUNTDOWN TO
DOOM re-release by Topologika is a mammoth upgrade to the original with
many more puzzles, locations and characters. In many respects a cult
classic it is both one of the few Electron games solely produced on disk
(and in fact one of only ten games ever which were customised to work
only with PRES' AP4 upgrade) and one that is still available from its
software company to this day.
The first installment in a trilogy of text adventures about the
plague planet Doomawangara (followed by RETURN TO DOOM and THE LAST DAYS
OF DOOM in 1988 and 1990 respectively), it mixes a surprisingly detailed
narrative of exits and locations with unexpected sarcastic comments when
you try particular actions.
The scene is set when your spaceship crashlands and a countdown (of
the title) starts ticking away to ship collapse. The description of what
is left of your ship's interior hardly inspires hope that any of it is
fixable but, with Doomawangara best described as a spaceship graveyard,
there is a small chance you can collect enough sundries to get the craft
airborne again. A simple puzzle will see you out onto terra firma (after
blowing up even more of your ship) and present you with a swamp, jungle,
valley, desert, mountain path and narrow path; all exquisitely detailed
as, you will quickly appreciate, is the norm.
What is irksome about continuing from this point is that any false
sense of security you had developed thanks to the simpilicity of your
escape is then repeatedly squished. Almost every move you make now re-
sults in a hideous and sometimes quite unconnected death. For example,
you choose the desert, death by heatstroke; swamp, death by drowning;
narrow path, death by slugs falling out of the sky; etc.
As in all adventures, there are objects to find and use correctly.
Unlike in many, there is no need to EXAMINE anything. Doing so brings up
the message "I've already told you everything you need to know about
that!" which comes direct from the hand of Peter Killworth, NOT the
Doom-stranded adventurer who is refered to in the second person. Once
again though, you are forced to die a number of bloodthirsty deaths to
discover what is safe to pick up or manipulate. Oh, goody, a gun, I'll
fire it. Dead. What's that blob wriggling towards the cliff? I'll TAKE
it. Dead. And these are only in the first six or seven locations! Bear-
ing in mind that professional adventures such as this tend to get harder
and harder the further the adventurer manages to progress, some will
probably be very discouraged by these early setbacks which, if you have
not SAVEd the position, immediately return you to the start of it.
A better solution, which is contained in some other Topologika
releases, is to ask "Do you want to pretend you hadn't done that?" and
wait for the inevitable Y keypress. This saves a large measure of frus-
tration.
As you may have guessed, I have not personally made much headway in
this hellhole but apart from the spotless spelling and atmosphere, the
game has one more feature to recommend it and this is the on line help
facility.
With the original disk comes a sheet of most-likely-to-be-asked
questions. However, instead of having to decrypt a coded answer or look
it up on another sheet, you obtain the answer from the game itself by
typing HELP and then the NUMBER following the appropriate question. You
get one hint and, if this is too cryptic, can ask for further ones until
you are given a solution. In this way, the game's appeal is advanced as
you can make progress without needing Britain's Biggest Brain.
Presented in a stylish clear plastic folder with an illustrated low-
down on the planet and a playing guide, COUNTDOWN TO DOOM suggests at
every level that it is a very serious adventure which will tax the old
grey matter to bursting point. This is exactly what the software itself
does and it's no bad thing at all. It incorporates many new items over
the original version and, although it includes some tried (or should
that be tired?) and tested puzzles from other adventures, manages to
cram in a few new ideas too. If you can live with being knocked off
every few minutes, and don't mind responses like "Gee, I hope you enjoy-
ed that!" if you do something Killworth considers unnecessary, then give
this adventure a go. But be warned though, it's not easy!
Dave Edwards, EUG #54
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I'll TA| 00000a20 4b 45 0d 69 74 2e 20 44 65 61 64 2e 20 41 6e 64 |KE.it. Dead. And| 00000a30 20 74 68 65 73 65 20 61 72 65 20 6f 6e 6c 79 20 | these are only | 00000a40 69 6e 20 74 68 65 20 66 69 72 73 74 20 73 69 78 |in the first six| 00000a50 20 6f 72 20 73 65 76 65 6e 20 6c 6f 63 61 74 69 | or seven locati| 00000a60 6f 6e 73 21 20 42 65 61 72 2d 0d 69 6e 67 20 69 |ons! 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