Zorro / Datasoft 1985
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Zorro

Scenario
Team up with Zorro, Johnston McCulley's legendary masked crusader for justice and freedom! Travel back and forth between the screens to reach your objective: rescue a pretty señorita from the clutches of wicked Sergeant Garcia.

Help Zorro search for the crucial items that enable him to reach the Fort where the señorita is held captive. The key to the solution is in the Olé 6 Hotel.

Figure out the secret to open the vault in the Wine Cellar. Brand the bull in the Livery Stable to collect the lucky horseshoe. Find and return the missing Mission Bells. Descend into the grave and navigate a dreadful maze of catacombs. Free innocent prisoners from Garcia's evil jail.

Grab your sword, don your mask and cape, and get ready to make the mark of the Z!

Features
• Multi-screen action-adventure game
• Adventure-style screen-to-screen movement
• "Scavenger-hunt" gameplay
• Swashbuckling duels

Strategy
Evil Sergeant Garcia has kidnapped a beautiful señorita and imprisoned her in his Fort. As the masked crusader, Zorro, your mission is to find the girl and rescue her from his clutches.

Garcia's guards will do everything they can to slow you down. Be prepared to do battle! You'll climb ladders, explore dark passages, leap from rooftop to rooftop, bounce on improbable trampolines.

In every screen are puzzles and perils. Mapping is advisable, since you travel through many screens more than once. Work back and forth, from screen to screen, finding crucial objects and clues. And don't be surprised if some objects you find seem to have magical properties!

This game is a tricky combination of action and adventure. You'll have to put on your thinking cap to get Zorro through to his lady-love!

Game controls and indicators
Move the joystick in the directions below to control Zorro.

Up: Climb up or jump
Up/Right: Jump right
Right: Run right
Right/Down: n/a
Down: Climb down
Down/Left: n/a
Left: Run left
Left/Up: Jump left

Press L for left-hand joystick mode. Rotate the joystick one quarter turn clockwise. An L appears in the upper right corner of the screen to indicate you're in left-hand mode. To return to right-hand mode, press R and rotate joystick one quarter turn counterclockwise.

In a swordfight, push joystick toward a guard to push him off the screen or a ledge.

To defeat a guard, press joystick button when both swords are down (forming a V).

Pause game by pressing the Space Bar. Press the Space Bar or the joystick button to resume play.

Pick up and drop objects by pressing the joystick fire button.

Background music is turned off and on by pressing S.

Information at the top of the screen shows your score, the high score, bonus points, and the number of Zorros in reserve (you start the game with four).

Scoring
Kill a guard – 5. Get object from Hotel storage room – 200. Take Money Bag, various other things – current bonus.

Bonus Points: The game begins with 2,200 bonus points. The longer Zorro takes to complete a task, the lower the bonus counter goes (it never goes below 1,000). After the first task, the bonus counter resets to 9,900 for each remaining task.

Hints
• Zorro can only carry one object at a time (except the hanky, which goes into a pocket).

• When Zorro picks something up, his sword is put away; he doesn't drop it.

• Check the Hotel from time to time for new objects.

• There can be as many as six different ways to leave a screen.

• It's a good idea to make a map to help keep track of Zorro's progress. Indicate on the map objects he's found and where he found them.
 
Loading
1. Connect a joystick to Port 1.

2. Press Shift and Run/Stop keys together, then press Play on cassette recorder.

3. Game will load and run automatically.

Product information and credits
Copyright subsists on this program. All rights of the producer reserved. Unauthorized broadcasting, diffusion, public performance, copying or re-recording, hiring, leasing, renting, and selling under any exchange or repurchase scheme in any manner is prohibited.

Manufactured in the U.K. under license from Datasoft Inc. by U.S. Gold Limited, Unit 10, The Parkway Industrial Centre, Heneage Street, Birmingham B7 4LY.

Datasoft is a registered trademark of Datasoft Inc. Zorro is a registered trademark of Zorro Productions. © 1985 Zorro Productions. All rights reserved. © 1985 Datasoft Inc.

Game Programming by James Garon.
Computer Graphics by Kelly Day.
Game Design by James Garon, Kelly Day, John Ludin, Roy Langston and Terry Shakespeare.
Documentation by Kathi B. Tremblay.

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