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UNDERWURLDE

PUBLISHER
Ultimate Play The Game (ACG)

AUTHORS
Chris and Tim Stamper

YEAR OF RELEASE
December 1984

CATEGORY
Arcade Adventure

INSTRUCTIONS
Underwurlde is a fast, action packed arcade adventure platform
game.  The game is set deep underground in the Underwurlde.
Creatures attack from every angle and rather than kill you they
merely bounce you around.  This make make the game sound easy,
but oh no!  The enemies bounce you off cliffs, off ropes and into
deep chasms, dropping to your doom.

The object of the game is to guide Sabreman out of the
Underwurlde and back onto the surface.  This is easier said than
done.  The game features 256 screens and also large monsters
blocking your way.  These need to be destroyed by a particular
weapon before you can continue on your journey.

CONTROLS

          UNDERWURLDE
CONTROLLING YOUR ADVENTURER

KEYBOARD CONTROLS

LEFT Your Adventurer will move left using the Q key.

RIGHT Your Adventurer will move right using the W key.

UP Your Adventurer will move up and jump using the R key.

DOWN Your Adenturer will move down using the E key.

FIRE Your Adventurer will use his weapon when the T key is
pressed.

DROP FROM ROPE Your Adventurer will drop from the rope when the
CAPS SHIFT, Z, X, C or V key is pressed.

PICK UP/DROP your Adventurer can pick up or drop a weapon using
the B, N, M SYMBOL SHIFT and SPACE keys.

PAUSE The whole game can be paused by using the ENTER key.

JOYSTICK CONTROLS

Your Adventurer can be fully controlled by using the KEMPSTON
INTERFACE, CURSOR CONTROLLED INTERFACE, or the SINCLAIR INTERFACE
II and joystick, by replacing the LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN and FIRE
commands.


INLAY CARD TEXT

           THE BLACK VOID

Long dark paths have I travelled, through caverns and hidden
labyrinths, my path grown darker...  Deathly chill as I approach
the "Well of Evil"...  guarding the UNDERWURLDE.

I approach, fix my rope, and with a firm leap, swing down into
the depths of THE BLACK VOID.  The air rushes past as I decend
down into the dark dank hollow, disturbing the dust, a debris of
long-since fought battles and struggles.

            WINGED HARPIES AND GARGOYLES

Silent fossilised creatures stir, emerging from centuries of
hibernation, awakened by my echoing gropes and thuds. Their
dormant evil, hungry from ages past sparks itself into life.

Suddenly the whole cavern erupts into a scurrying slithering
sadowy grave of beating wings and desperate gnashing jaws.

Winged Harpies soar and swoop down with beakswide and talons
spread. Hungry monsters and reptiles desperate not to lose their
first meal in eons, batter and punish me until I can take no
more, waiting for me to fail.

            SIRENS OF THE UNDERWURLDE

All about are strange sparkling plants "Sirens of the
Underwurlde", waving their poisnous gnashing deadly tendrils,
beckoning me on toward them, their stifling odours a prelude to
their vision of hideous ugliness.  To touch their sticky putrid
foliage would mean certain death.

            BEWARE

  ALL YOU NEED IS THERE TO TAKE
LOCATE THE WEAPONS, THEN TO MAKE
A JOURNEY ON IF YOU WOULD DARE
TO FIND THE DEVIL IN HIS LAIR
THE LONG DARK PALACE, SEEK YOU WILL
THE GEMS YOUR POCKETS WILL NOT FILL
THO' ENERGY THEY'LL MAKE YOU FAST
AND GARGOYLES THEN YOU WILL GET PAST
UP AND DOWN, THE JOURNEY'S SLOW
SO DOWN IS FIRST THE WAY TO GO.

The old travellers words still singing in my head.


            UNDERWURLDE VOLCANOS

In the distance the low rumbling of UNDERWURLDE volcanoes can be
heard. Huge plumes of poisonous sulphurous devilish gases roll
along the cavern roofs.  As the enourmous bubbles of inert plasma
ascend the natural chimney stack causeways, eroded and forged
from centuries of ancient fires and flames.  My journey has only
just begun.  I must travel on through this deadly labyrinth of
the UNDERWURLDE to find the ULTIMATE place of darkness, in which
lies the way to my escape.


            UNDERWURLDE FEATURES
            --------------------


Sabreman            Chest Of Drawers
Volcanic Bubbles    Caves
Rocks               Castle
Poisonous Plants    Guardians
Eagles              Falling Stalactites
Bows                Gremlins
Arrows              Multi-Lives
Catapult            Superb Graphics
Daggers             Statues
Torches             Extra Lives
Fireballs           Explosions
Magic Gems          Weapon Select Button
Volcanic Craters    Realistic Jumps
Rope Swings         Continuous Pause
Ledges              Amazing Animation
Jumps               Keyboard/Joystick Select
Ducks               Bookshelves
Pictures            Pick Up/Drop
Tables


SEQUELS/PREQUELS
Underwurlde is the sequal to Sabrewulf. Once Sabreman reaches the
cave in Sabrewulf he finds himself in the Underwurlde. There are
3 exits out of the Underwurlde. One takes the player to
Knightlore, the other to Pentagram, and the third was supposed
to take you to Mire Mare, but as most Spec-Chums know. this was
never released.


SCORES/REVIEWS
Crash, Issue: 12, Page: 17, Percentage: 92%

CHEATS
Infinite lives      59376,0
Stay cyan           38043,0
                    45019,201
                    59591,0


GENERAL FACTS
Underwurlde, and Knightlore, released at the same time, were the
first Ultimate games to feature the fast but hard to run,
hyperload. This was introduced to speed up loading times and
reduce software piracy.

Underwurlde was featured in a Crash "Map the Game" competition.
The prize for the best map was a fantastic pickaxe and shovel
trophey.


NOTES
