A truly fantastic game; it formed a large part of my childhood for a time, as it was one of the few PC games I ever bought in the early 90's.

The reviewer mentioned that it was a well-balanced game: he hit the nail right on the head. It's an extremely good game engine, which just feels right. The gavity, physics, special abilities - they are all very powerful yet very intuitive to use.

Added to that, the level design, and some of the ideas the underpin the puzzles, are second to none (well, maybe second to some of the all-time classics like Mario).

Also, the Mod music is great. Loopy, cheesy, slightly irritating, yes, but EXACTLY the type of music that a computer game requires.

In short, this is a brilliant game which, for reasons unknown to me, was never really the hit it deserved to be. Give it a try. I guarantee you won't be disappointed.

Steve

One of my all-time favs. I almost passed it several times, I just never had the patience to finish the last level (the machine), though I've been close a few times...

They also used it for Pac-in-time on the GameBoy (It was the first game I ever bought for that system :D ), and from the looks of the screenshots, they stole the levels and monsters as well as the engine. No matter though... it was one of my favourite games and it'll be interesting to see how it works as a PC thing :).

Warning: don't try to run it outside of DOSbox. Never say yes to anything the go.bat gives you if you run it in Windows, don't edit anything.

I managed to replace windows with the game by clicking a box. And, as it has no return-to-DOS function, I couldn't start Windows to change it back.

If it somehow does do this, insert a bootdisk at startup, start prompt from there, and alter the autoexec.bat file (like, put REM in front of the lines that run the game).

Just so you know.

Does anyone know how to exit the game without having to restart my computer? Yes, i went the whole mile and three quarters and installed MS-Dos on a different partition... sad but true, but i [i][b]need[b][i] my dos games, it's just annoying to restart the computer over and over after i want to play something else. Any help would be great, please.

It's a ctrl-combination, if I remember right. Try the usual: c, x, q, esc, z. It's one of those I think

Unfortunately, you HAVE to kill that darn mummy. THEN thesand drains away, so you can eat your way out. If you are going to kill him, get in, fire a fewshots at him, and GET OUT. Repeat.
That's how I beat him.. annoying little bugger.

BTW, has anyone beaten the last level? I got to a room full of some small creatures spamming bullets at you (killed me in a second). There was a big thing behind these that looked like a boss, but i couldn't get there alive. (The whole thing looks like a space invaders game.)

Final entry: I've tried about every combination of Ctrl+key. None of them exited my version. I also tried Alt+key, Shift+key, Ctrl+Alt+key etc. No luck. Guess this game wasn't made for quitting.

Whee....my first post....can anyone help me out here? I'm stuck on one of the forest levels... I can see the exit but can't get to it. The level is the one where there's a big tree right in the middle and some branches at the very top. The exit is in the top left and I can't see anyway to get to it. It's trapped up in the branches and I can't get there....can anyone help?

Are you sure that there's only one exit? :whistle:

yeah...there's only one exit..but I found out what to do...the way to open up the end is to just hang there on a branch, and it will slowly fall down, not something I have previously thought to try, since there were several things trying to kill me right there...