VOODOO NIGHTMARE



Its alway's safer to move around at night, as that's when the creatures

sleep.  When day breaks, hit the pause key.  Night will still fall but

because the game's paused nothing moves.  As soon as the sky darkens unpause

and carry on exploring.



              ****************************************************

              *  V O O D O O    N I G H T M A R E  -  S O L V E  *

              ****************************************************



                                             by POSTCARD  MAN  11/5/91



     The game VOODOO NIGHTMARE (Released in December 1990) was dismissed by

game collectors and players as a frustrating and light weight game of little

consequence. Actually the arcade style adventure game is quite complex and

diabolical in construction. The problem is that the player can't explore the

jungle because he becomes immediately trapped in the first of the four

temples, the snake temple. It is a labyrinth of interconnected rooms,

populated by dangerous spiders. The task is to collect all the temple's gems

and escape. But until you do certain tasks within the temple, doors between 

the passages remain sealed and one never gets very far in the game. The other

reason that some dislike the game is that controls are too sensitive in this

isometric view game. Moves are always made diagonally and mistakes cost 

lives. Fortunately there is a game save (only two on a disk but you could

move these to other disks to store more).

     

GAME PLAY:



     Our hero Boots Barker, who was thrown out of a plane, parachuted safely

into the African jungle below. He was knocked unconcious on landing and when

he awoke found to his horror that he was encased in a huge Voodoo Mask that 

extended from waist to head. It wouldn't come off. As he soon found out, an

evil witch doctor who ruled the jungle was responsible. The doctor resides

in an evil fortress which is magically protected so you can't enter. But you

can get to him by collecting eight magical pins and sticking them into a

voodoo doll of the doctor's likeness. Five of the pins are in the temples 

devoted to various animal gods, and the remaining three can be earned by 

completing three tasks; returning the missing lion cub to its mother is the 

first. We don't know the other tasks at this time.

     As you wander around the jungle you will be attacked by hordes of

creepy-crawlies that will sap your strength until you eventually kill them.

This can be done with your pair of boots that you are initially wearing.

The witch doctor also owns a chain of stores scattered throughout the

jungle. They are only open in the daytime (creatures sleep at night). You 

can use your acquired jewels and bananas to buy items like a map 

( sold in 4 parts), machete for hacking through growth, a knife useful for 

killing nasties, extra lives, a first aid kit, scrolls with hints, and 

several other items. Each store carries different items so you need to visit

many stores. You will need to experiment to find the uses of some of your

purchased items.

     Pressing the space bar accesses your inventory screen. You can select 

the item to use with the joystick. While you can jump on nasties to kill

them, it is often less dangerous to switch to a knife to kill them from a

distance. But remember you can jump pits unless you are wearing your boots.

And remember that when you are down to your last life it is best to activate

your extra life before you die. It is also best to save the game at crucial

times. For example, the Eagle temple has several traps like the Indiana Jones

style rolling rock that is tripped when you collect a gem down a long 

passageway. Since several pasageway walls are movable, an escape must be

planned or you will be crushed by the rock. Besides you must be quick.

     Game saves and loads can be tripped by pressing the space bar and 

bringing up a menu. Press F1 to load a previously saved game, or F2 to save

your current game. It asks for a file name. Two saves fit on the game disk,

and I believe you can put in a blank formatted disk into the internal drive

and it will save to it. Remember to replace the game disk since it needs it

for various functions.

     You can earn extra money and health points by visiting the casino (open

only at night). You play the slot machine. Another profitable method is to

visit the banana grove on an island and collect bananas.





SPIDER TEMPLE



     This is the easiest temple. The task is to collect 6 blue gems and 69

red gems. Some of the gems in a room are partially hidden or are difficult

to reach and often require using teleporters to transport to differnt 

sections of the room. A gem symbol at the bottom right of the screen on the

score line indicates whether any gems remain in a room. It vanishes when

there are none. Some of the exits to a room are initially blocked when

entering, but killing a creature, moving a pillar, or collecting all the

gems will open the door. You will hear a beep sound when a door is opened. 

In the harder levels the door opened may not be in the same room.

     The following solution refers to the included map of the Spider Temple.

The rooms are numbered so you should refer to the map often. Our solution is

not set in concrete and the order that we collected all its jewels can be

varied by the reader. In fact, you would probably have more fun by playing

the game only with the map in hand and figuring out how to collect all the

gems by yourself. However, you might want to look at how to exit the last

room or you might never escape the temple. You can't leave the temple until

you find the required number of diamonds. 



     The game begins in Rm #1. Exit right to Rm #2 (Kill spider), exit top

to Rm #3 (use transporters to get gems), exit bottom to Rm #2 exit left

to Rm #1 to Rm #6 to Rm #7 (kill spider), exit right to Rm #8 (kill spider)

exit right to Rm 3 (use transporters, kill spider, get gems; the bottom 

transporter in center of the room eventually takes you to the right side of 

room), exit top to Rm #5 (this room has a white flame), exit bottom to Rm #4

(kill spider). This is another large split room. The gems are on the other 

side. Exit top to Rm #5, exit left to Rm #3 (big transporter room; collect 

gems). Exit left to Rm #8, exit left to Rm #7 (white flame room), exit 

bottom to Rm #6, exit right to Rm #1, exit right to Rm #2, exit right

to Rm #4 ( now at bottom of split room; get gems).

     Now we need to work our way to the left side of the temple. Exit left

to Rm #2, exit left to Rm #1, exit left to Rm #6, exit top to Rm #7, exit

left to Rm #9 (big room; The transporter 4th from top gets you to the gem 

field; kill spider; note there is a transporter hidden in the rocks). Exit

top to Rm #10 (kill spider), exit top to Rm #11, exit top to Rm #12 (kill 

spider), exit top to Rm #13 (big split room, collect one blue diamond), exit

down to Rm #12, exit right to Rm #16 (Large transporter room, teleport 

across, push pillar off hidden transporter, the bottom right transporter

gets you to bottom exit) to Rm #28 (kill spider). This is a gate room. If

you don't get blue diamond, you can't cross over to the right side of the

temple.

     Exit up to Rm #16 (Use transporter to get to top area, collect gems and

use transporter to exit left to Rm #12. At this point you should have 4 blue

diamonds and 38 red rubies. Exit down to Rm #11 then exit right to Rm #28.

You are in the bottom half of the room. Exit bottom rt to Rm #29, then exit

up to Rm #17 which is another split room. (kill spider) Exit up to Rm #15,

(kill spider) then exit left to Rm #14, then left again to Rm #13. You are

now in the top part of this split room (collect gems) then exit right to

Rm #14, right again to Rm #15, exit right to Rm #18 which has blue flame

pots (kill spider). Exit bottom to Rm #20 (kill spider & collect gems). This

room has many pots, some with red flames. Exit right to Rm #21, exit bottom

to Rm #22 (kill spider which opens left door), exit left to Rm #23, left

again to Rm #31 (kill spider) then exit top to Rm #32 (Food Room, kill 

spider). Exit bottom to Rm #31, then down again to Rm #30, exit left to 

Rm #26 (kill spider). The other side of this split room is the gateway to 

the exit. Exit right to Rm #30, then top to Rm #31, right to Rm #23, right

again to Rm #22, exit top to Rm #21, finally exit left to Rm #20. Work way

down through the rock maze to bottom transporter; get gems at top and make

sure you find partially hidden blue diamond. Exit left to Rm #17 (collect

gems in the upper part of the room - note that detailed pillars are movable).

     We are now on the home stretch and the easy part. Exit right to Rm #20,

then exit top to Rm #18, then right to Rm #19 (get red gems in room with many

blue fire pots). Exit left to Rm #18, left again to Rm #15, down to Rm #17,

down again to Rm #29, then left to Rm #28. Exit left to Rm #11, then bottom

to Rm #10, then down to Rm #9 (transporter room). Exit right to Rm #7, exit

top to Rm #24, exit top again to Rm #25, then right to Rm #26 (pick up blue

diamond. You should now have 6 diamonds and 69 rubies, which are all of them.

Exit top of room to Rm #27 which is the final room. Push pillar towards the

bottom left corner and a door opens to let you out of the temple.



JUNGLE



     After exiting the Spider Temple, you are now able to travel freely in

the jungle. Of course you must be careful of the the snakes and other

creatures that could rob you of a life. You need to travel south to the

nearest store that sells a machette and a mysterious potion. (You don't need

to buy the four map parts from different stores since I've included it in 

this package) To reach the store head down through the trees and be careful

not to fall through the holes on the bridge. The store is only open in the

daytime. Use your gems to pay for the items. Leave the store and recross

the bridge. You can access your machete by pressing the space bar and

selecting it wit the joystick. Work your way to the upper right on the screen

and you can use the machette to hack your way through the trees. Watch out

for natives with blowguns.

     There is a casino (open only at night) near the top of the jungle. You 

can gamble inside on the slot machines. You can win extra lives or money. The

store nearby sells a knife, TNT, and extra lives. The store far below the

casino sells a first aid potion. Another way to earn currency used at the

store is to collect 100 bananas in the banana grove. Sometimes it is 

difficult to locate because you may take the wrong path (see map for 

approximate location). It is across a bridge and you'll have to hack your

way into the grove.

     The first quest is to find the lion cub and return him to his mom. The

cub is hidden in the cub tree near the bottom of the jungle. His mom is close

to the Casino near the top. When you succed, she will give you a pin.

     You now need to find the Snake Temple which is located in the upper-left

hand quadrant inside a hollow tree.





SNAKE TEMPLE 



     You begin in Rm #1 entraped by a circle of thorns. Push one of the 

thorns left to exit the trap. The ones that are movable have a thicker black

line at the base. Collect diamonds. You must jump pits to reach several of 

them. Remember to put on your boots or you will fall into the pits. Switch 

to a knife before leaving the room. Exit top to Rm #2, then right to Rm #3

(kill snake). Exit top to Rm #4. Push pillar to get rubies, then push thorns

to make a path to transporters. Careful! You will almost certainly lose a

life because moving the thorns reveals a pit. Use one of your purchased lives

in your inventory by activating it if you are down to your last life. Put

boots on and jump across pit. Exit right to Rm #5 then exit bottom to Rm #6.

Kill snake at bottom. Hop islands to get to pillar. Push pillar (turns gems

from red to more valuable blue). Do not leave room until you collect gems or

they will change back. Collect gems especially ones partially hidden at top

of room.

     Exit right to Rm #10 (kill snake), exit right to Rm #11. This is a big

split room. Kill the glow worm. Push pillar down to reach transporter, then

transport. Pushing a pillar there turns the gems red. Collect them and 

transport back, exit left to room #10, then left agin to Rm #6. You must hop

islands because you wish to exit bottom which leads to Rm #7. Kill snake.

Exit right to Rm #8 (kill snake, push pillar right), exit right to Rm #9

(kill snake, then work maze until get two diamonds). Jump the trap at the

bottom and exit right to Rm #19 (kill snakes, get saphire, kill black cobra).

Exit top to Rm #18 (kill snake) in this split room. Exit right to Rm #17

(kill snake), top to Rm #16 (collect diamond), then exit left to Rm #15. Push

pillar to open bottom door and exit bottom to Rm #18 (collect ruby in top 

half of split room). Exit top to Rm #15, then right to Rm #16 and down to

Rm #17, left to Rm #18 and left again to Rm #11. Push thorn pillar to go

north and exit to Rm #12 (kill the snake across pit with your knife). 

     Exit right to Rm #13 ( a big room; watch out for two cobras). Push 

thorn clump up the passageway in the middle of the screen past the 

transporter. Kill snake with boots. Transport again and kill second snake.

Work your way to bottom, then jump pit to collect gems. Exit bottom to Rm #14

then right to Rm #15, right to Rm #16, exit bottom to Rm #17, left to Rm #18

down to Rm #19, down again to Rm #20 and down once more to Rm #21. With

shoes on, cross pit and collect diamond (careful - kill snake). In case you

are lost, this room has two bubbling pots and bouncing snake eggs. Exit

bottom to Rm #22, then down again to Rm #23. Exit right to Rm #24 (kill snake

and collect diamonds). Exit top to Rm #25 (kill two snakes and collect 5 

gems). Exit top to Rm #26 (killing snake opens top door) then exit top to

Rm #27 (collect diamonds). Exit left to Rm #31, then exit top to Rm #32 (kill

snake which opens door, collect gems). Exit right to Rm #33 where you need

to hop islands to collect gems.

     Now we are on the home stretch and need to make our way towards the

exit in Rm #34. Exit Rm #33 left to Rm #32, then down to Rm #31, down to

Rm #30, down again to Rm #29 and again to Rm #28. Exit left to Rm #21, up

to Rm #20, up to Rm #19 and up one more time to Rm #18. Exit here left to

Rm #11 where you will need to push the shorn thorn clump to get through to

the top exit that will take you to Rm #12. Jump the pit and exit left side

to Rm #34. Use transporter to get inside and collect diamond. This opens the

top door which leads to the exit in Rm #34. Exit temple to jungle once again.



JUNGLE (2nd Time)



     The next jungle quest is to find the ape. The creature is hidden in a 

tree just below the river. You will have to hack your way through the bushes

using your machette. You will need to be careful when you aproach the hollow

tree from the rear since it is right on the edge of the river and you can 

easily fall here. When you find the ape he will automatically take ten 

bananas and give you a pin.

     If you wish you can cross the bridge to Voodoo Island although it won't

accomplish anything because you need additional pins to give to the voodoo

priest. Be careful - there are warriors there.

     There is one additional quest in the jungle to obtain a final pin. It

probably occurs once you sucessfully exit the Eagle Temple. However, it is

unknown at this time.



     NOW THAT I HAVE TAKEN YOU THIS FAR, SEND ME THE SECOND PART OF SOLVE.


ADDITIONAL ACTION REPLAY POKES (Source: AR Codelist):
Lives = 1bc9
Energy = 1bc1
Red Gems = 1bb7
Blue Gems = 1bb5