Roland On The Ropes by Amsoft
Synopsis:
You have entered into a vast, dark and mysterious tomb. You find yourself right at the lowest level of the tomb and must endeavour to find your way through the maze to the top encountering many hostile beings who are out to get you. Before Lara there was Roland.
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Original Instructions
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LOADING INSTRUCTIONS
Reset the computer by holding down CTRL,SHIFT and ESCAPE keys together in that order. Place cassette into Datacorder. Rewind tape to beginning then press STOP/ EJECT once. Press CTRL and small ENTER keys simultaneously then press PLAY followed by any key. This program will take about 9 minutes to load.
You have entered into a vast and dark mysterious tomb. You find yourself right at the lowest level of the tomb and must endeavour to find your way through the maze to the top encountering many hostile beings who are out to get you. Be brave and fearless as you climb your way through the numerous levels but BEWARE......
Your strength will fade as you are confronted with monsters, acid drops, mummies, rats, skeletons, ghosts and vampires. Your strength is monitored at the bottom of the screen together with other information.
STR = Strength left
SC = Score
L = Level in tomb
B = Bullets
S = Screen number
Being the intrepid Roland, you are able to jump over the rats to escape them, and to defend yourself you can shoot at the mummies, skeletons or vampires, inevitably killing them. But shooting the ghosts merely frightens them away and there is no escape from them. Your only means of gaining strength is by collecting the vases full of Life Elixir hidden an the tomb floors or accumulating more bullets.
Be on your guard as chameleons dart up and down the walls next to your rope. You can pass them without losing strength if you climb the rope on the opposite side, but the cunning chameleons can change sides!
You are awarded points if you succeed in killing monsters or collecting treasures plus a bonus when your final destination is reached and you are FREE!
SCORE
400 Points for each monster shot
500 - 2000 Points for each treasure collected.
5000 Points on Exit.
1000 Points bonus for each treasure collected on exit.
CONTROLS
Cursor Keys & AMSOFT JYI Joystick
Left or Joy Left = move left
Right or Joy Right = move right
? or Joy Up = up rope or jump
1 or Joy Down = down rope
Copy or Fire Button= Shoot bullets
Cheat Mode
typein
Type in and RUN the listing, then follow instructions to get infinite lives.
10 MEMORY 4800
20 LOAD "ROLAND.D"
30 LOAD "ROLAND.C"
40 POKE -25804,0 POKE -25562,0
50 CALL 41100 - submitted by Malc (CPC Zone Staff)
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Ritchardo mkII says
"One of my first games and I loved it! Sure the graphics flicker but they look gorgeous. Nice bright and colourful, the way computer games should look dang-nammit! It`s a super simplistic game and one I keep coming back to. Roland`s best effort by far!"
Briggsy says
"I loved this game, and played it to death. The best version of Fred by far, despite the slightly dodgy scrolling. Whilst not an amazing game it`s playable and colourful and a fondly remembered game for most CPC users."
Specfreak says
"Re-release of Fred by Indescomp S.A., originally released in 1983"
fire_ignition says
"This is the first game i ever played on the CPC. its really good, but i could never get passed the first level! very hard! "
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Andyuk says
"way back when i was 4, i played this more than any other Amstrad game. It must have been the colourfull graphics, or maybe I was hypnotised by the sound effects. Still like it today."