Amerzone - Part 1

                   Written by Bert Jamin
             With special thanks to Yvonne Smit
                (c) Bert Jamin and Yvonne Smit

Intro

Amerzone is a very nice adventure. Not too hard and not too easy.
It all looks very nice! Compliments to Casterman en Microids. If
you are not sure if you should buy this game... go and run for it!

However you can't die in the game, I advise you to save the game
now and then to prevent that you have to play bigger parts of the
game over and over again.

Chapter 1

You are standing on a country-road and after a while, a postman
talks to you. He has the important message for you that there has
come another letter from the museum. He also tells you that spells
little good. Walk towards the lighthouse, but a little further on,
you should go to the left and look through the telescope and take
a look at the lighthouse. When you arrive at the lighthouse, take
the letter and read it. As the postman told you, it's a letter
from the museum. Read it. At this moment you have no idea what
they are talking about. But that will change soon enough!

Open the gate and go inside. In the entrance-hall you discover an
old bicycle, and right next to it a sledge-hammer, take it.

Go to the hatch in the corner, open it and go down stairs. Turn
the switch and there will be light in the darkness!

Go up again and climb the stairs up to the first floor. Here you
can see an old man sitting at the table. Walk to him and speak
with him. He is telling you about Amerzone and that "it's" still
alive. He is also telling you that he doesn't have the strength
anymore to go himself. That's why he begs you to go in his place
and to take the white egg with you.

After that, inspect everything in the room. Take the papers out of
the drawer. You can find papers all over the place, and you MUST
have them and you must have read them!

Take a look at the picture of the Indian girl at the table at the
right.  It's the young love of the professor. At the top of the
letter from the museum you can find a telephone number. Walk to
the telephone which is hanging on the wall left of the spiral
stairs up. Dial the number of the museum (0346528179).

Go to the next floor and examine everything again. The book at the
desk is very important until the end of the game. So take it and
read it.

Walk to the slide projector and turn it on with the switch at the
back. Slide the two slides through the projector and you will see
two other nice pictures of the professor's girl friend. Turn
around and walk to the steel ladder right of the desk and climb
up. Pick up the papers you'll find at the end of the balustrade
and read them. Climb down and examine the lighthouse until you are
at the top. At one floor before the top you can find another
telescope.  Look through it, go up further until you reach the top
of the lighthouse and examine everything again.

After that, climb all the way down until you reach the hatch
again, the one near the bike. Read the book to find out the
birthday of the professor. In the passage downstairs walk straight
ahead till the end of it. Go further downstairs until you can go
to the right.

Here you'll find a small room with a computer. Turn the switch at
the wall, after that turn the switch of the aggregate right from
the table and at last the switch of the computer.

Take the diskette, zoom in on the computer and put the diskette in
it. Now you will be asked for a password. Now what could that be?
Use the birthday of the professor (28-06-04) and push the little
star. Then choose Authentication and after that Load. On your
monitor you can see what's happening further on in the passage.  A
big door is opening and behind that door is an elevator.  Walk to
the elevator and go down. Notice that the elevator is getting
stuck a little bit half-way, before it's going down further.  When
you reach the bottom, get out of the elevator.

Now you are in the room with the Hydroflot, the special vehicle
the professor has designed for your very special trip to Amerzone.
The thing really can do anything. It can fly, sail, glide, grapnel
and even go sub marine!

Walk downstairs and go to the office at the left of the room.
Examine everything carefully. At the desk you can find the drawing
of the elevator. When you study it, you will see that the elevator
has a intermediate floor indeed.

Walk towards the Hydroflot and pass it at the right side. There
you'll find another passage. Walk straight on to the end of the
tunnel, then turn right. Another elevator!  Push the red button
and then zoom in at the button. Push the arrow up to go... up!
When the elevator stops, do the same again to go up further to the
first floor, the observation room.  There you'll find another
telescope with lots of cigarette stumps beneath it. Look through
the telescope and watch the birds flying away. At the top of your
looking glass you see in red the number 140. That must mean that
the birds are heading in the direction 140!?

Go back into the elevator and go up one floor. Surprise! Climb
further up until you reach the top of the lighthouse again. Enter
the room with the big steering wheel. You just saw the direction
the birds where flying to (140). In the big book you've read from
the professor is written that you should add 5 to it. So the
display should read the number 145!

The left handle turns the ciphers, the right handle changes the
position of the cylinder that moves. So first pull the left handle
once to turn it to number 1. Than pull the right handle once and
the left handle four times to turn the second cylinder to 4. Then
pull the right handle once again and pull the left handle 5 times.
If everything went right, the display should now show the number
145. If not, do it again until the display reads 145!

Leave the handles and turn the big steering wheel. The steering
wheel is turning now. Leave this room and go back to your personal
elevator and go all the way down (push the down arrow 2 times).
Get out and walk the wooden planks into the tunnel until you reach
the other elevator again.

Go up. Get out of the elevator and look at the floor. Here you'll
find a kind of pin with a bend handle. Pick it up and enter the
elevator again. Look down and at the foot of the elevator you'll
see a round hole in the wall. Put the handle in it.

Now go down with the elevator again. This time it stops half-way.
But your way out is blocked! Good thing that you've brought that
big sledge hammer... Hit the wall with it and voila! Your exit has
been made. Walk through the wall and you'll arrive in the room
with that big white egg! Now how to get that thing into your
Hydroflot!?  In the room you'll see a control and if you push the
handle, the egg goes off to the room where your Hydroflot is
waiting...

Go back to the elevator, go up with it and remove the pin from its
hole in the wall. Go down with the elevator until you reach the
room with the Hydroflot. Walk down the ladder. Downstairs, turn to
the right. Walk between the rails and the ladder straight on.
Turn right and you'll see a kind of platform with an iron border
with grooves in it. Step on the platform and pull the handle. The
egg will now be loaded safely into the Hydroflot.

Now you can enter the front compartment of the Hydroflot by
walking the gangway near it. Look at the controls and put the
diskette into the computer. Choose Load and mode Airplane. The
computer now reports that you are still missing the details which
are required to leave. Now what could that be!?

Just like in the lighthouse you should enter the coordinates for
your flight... Without it, it won't go anywhere! Choose 145,
followed by the little star to confirm your destiny. If everything
goes right, you should take off now. If it stops half way, you
must have done something wrong. If nothing at all is happening,
you also must have done something wrong and have to do it all over
again.

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