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A simple menu and cursor system is used to select members and manipulate objects. Computer-controlled characters will complain if they are injured, tired or hungry. It is up to the player to decide what action to take in response. Indulge them too often, and food and time will run short. Ignore them,
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The player initially controls Jarret, the leader of the party. The other survivors are Clive, a wealthy businessman; Gloria, his daughter; and Dirk, her fiancé. Each member of the party may be controlled by the player or by the game. Each member of the party has a different personality and abilities.
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For example, Clive is overweight, tires easily, and is always hungry. Dirk is athletic and has some knowledge of the local languages; he is reluctant to leave Gloria, and will become despondent if she dies. Useful objects are scattered about the map, which should be carefully explored.
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version, but do have some enhancements such as full introduction sequence, based on the comic book style adverts that were available and enhanced music that utilise the
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version with some enhancements which were not present in other iterations. A Commodore 64 version was considered but never started. The game was produced by
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The player must guide the party of four survivors - the pilot, Jarret, and his three passengers - to safety, avoiding
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and natural dangers, while also ensuring they are sufficiently rested and fed during the long and difficult journey.
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for preloading all files and then running the entire game from RAM.
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and they will abandon you and try to make their own way to safety.
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The working title for the game during development was "Tibet"
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A plane has crashed in a remote and unknown plateau of the
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versions for the most part are a 1:1 rendition of the
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Developer(s)
Denton Designs
Publisher(s)
Ocean Software
Platform(s)
ZX Spectrum
MS-DOS
Atari ST
Amiga
CD32
Genre(s)
Action-adventure
Single-player
isometric
action-adventure game
Ocean
1988
Sinclair Spectrum

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