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AUF WIEDERSEHEN MONTY



PUBLISHER

Gremlin Graphics



AUTHORS

Peter Harrap, S. Hollingworth, C. Kerry, C. Dooley, G. Holmes 

Graphics by S. Kerry and T. Lloyd



YEAR

1987 (released around May)



DESCRIPTION

At heart a standard platform game, but packed with all the lovely

touches and animations that made the Monty Mole games such a

success. Very playable - easy to get started but difficult to do

everything.



CONTROLS

Q, W, P, L, Space - left, right, climb up, climb down, jump

Symbol Shift - fly (at an airport)

3 and 4 together - abort

K - Music or J - Anthems (128K only)



INSTRUCTIONS

Get to your Greek island haven, collecting as much money as

possible in the form of Eurocheques or by using objects in

suitable ways. Use air tickets to fly around Europe.



INLAY CARD TEXT

[back cover]

Poor, persecuted Monty Mole, who was incarcerated by the bastions

of the law for borrowing coal to keep warm, has escaped and fled

these pleasant isles. Lying low in Gibraltar, Monty's whereabouts

have been leaked to "Intermole", who are in hot pursuit!



[instruction leaflet]

Auf Wiedersehen MONTY



Can you help Monty in his last fight for freedom? He must flee

for his life across Europe, in an effort to raise enough money

to buy the Greek island of Montos. On Montos Monty will at last

escape extradition as no one else even knows of its existence.



Travel across the continent with our mole, 'acquiring' travellers

cheques and any other valuables on your way. Could Monty make a

few francs from fencing the Mona Lisa? Can our intrepid Mole

repair his car in time to compete in the Grand Prix? The prize

money could come in handy. The Mafia may help if he can avoid the

'heavy duty footwear'.

 

Romance awaits Monty in "Pizza" in the form of 'Mole Fatale", the

fair Juliet. Her heart begs to be captured by a daring Muscle

Mole - is Monty her mole?



Can Monty tempt the palate of the German wine connoisseurs by

delivering a very special bottle of Chateau Blanc from one of the

finest vineyards in France.



Collect the plane tickets at the airports to enable Monty to

travel from one country to another. While in flight try to nibble

the back of the other planes to increase your score.



When all the objects have been collected a complete island will

be displayed at the bottom of the screen. Then and only then

should you go to Montos as arriving earlier may seriously damage

your chances of finishing the game.



CONTROL KEYS



SPECTRUM

Q = Left  W = Right  P = Up  L = Down  SPACE = Jump

Or Kempston, cursor, Interface II Joysticks

use the "Symbol Shift" key at an airport to fly

"3" and "4" together to break.



LOADING INSTRUCTIONS



SPECTRUM 48K

HOW TO LOAD

Type LOAD"" and press ENTER. Press PLAY on the cassette recorded.

The program will load and run automatically.



CHEATS

Load the game with the command LOAD "" : REM MONTY, then pick up

the red flag-like object on the first screen. This will give you

infinite lives and immunity from the monsters.



The airport destinations are as follows:

Spain -> Paris -> Antwerp -> Luxembourg -> Amsterdam -> Spain

Moledavia -> Copenhagen -> Sweden

Bonn -> West Berlin -> East Berlin -> Yugoslavia -> Rome ->

Olympus -> Bern 

Bern -> the non-functional (white) airport in Yugoslavia

White airport terminals cause you to lose a ticket when you press

SYMBOL SHIFT.



The objects can be converted into cash as follows:

Take the football to Juventus

Touch the blue man in Amsterdam to convert the fertiliser to a

bouquet of flowers; take this to Pizza

Take the wine to Dortmund

Take the Mona Lisa to Itsa Daboss in Italy

Carry the tools to use the ski-lift in Austria safely

Take the bacon to Sweden

Take the steering wheel to Monaco



SEQUELS/PREQUELS

This is the third in the Monty Mole series, and was trumpeted as

the last.  (The sequence was Wanted: Monty Mole, Monty On The

Run, Auf Wiedersehen Monty and the Your Sinclair special Moley

Christmas.)



SCORES RECEIVED

Crash (issue 40, May 1987, p.34): 85%

"A fine continuation of the long-standing Monty Mole theme."

Your Sinclair (issue 18, June 1987, p.91): 9/10 Megagame

"A really top hole multi-screen platform game."

(YS carried a preview in issue 15, March 1987, pp.44-45.)



URLs



GENERAL FACTS

The game originally cost œ7.95; it came with a badge bearing a

picture of Monty in flying gear and "AUF WIEDERSEHEN MONTY 

GREMLIN GRAPHICS SOFTWARE LTD" around the edge. A poster map of

Europe as seen in the game was available for  99p, together with

a hint sheet.



NOTES

You can fall any height without dying. You can jump on to a

platform at most three squares above than that on which you

stand. Although it is difficult to do, it is possible to die in

such a way that you lose all your lives - try jumping into a

screen where you will land on water.



The purple bottles have one of three effects: none, reversing

left and right, or making you walk in one direction without

stopping. The cocktails have no such effects. It is possible to

collect the lager in Dortmund safely.



As well as making a map, you will probably need to plan your

route with care in order to finish the game, so that you have

sufficient air tickets at all times.















































