THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE



NEMESIS THE WARLOCK



PUBLISHER

Martech



AUTHORS

Creative Reality (Jas Austin, Michael Archer, Dave Dew)



YEAR

1987



CATEGORY

Platform Arcade



DESCRIPTION

Hack and slash spectacular. Completely radical approach to

gruesome killing.  Basically a platform game with some superb

slaughtering action. The Terminators you kill fall dead onto the

ground ( if you shoot them, they fly backwards! ), upon which you

can use as platforms. As the bodies pile up, quite horrible

effects such as the reincarnation effect happen, causing

even more mayhem. Gruesomly brilliant.





CONTROLS

Action          Joystick                Default Keys

                ( All versions)         Spectrum

Left            <-                      Q

Right           ->                      W

Duck            v                       E

Jump            ^                       R

Swing Sword /   Fire                    T

Shoot Gun

Spit Acid                               SPACE

Quit                                    BREAK



INSTRUCTIONS



ORIGINAL INLAY CARD TEXT

To finish once and for all the evil regime of Torquemada, Grand

Master of Termight, Nemesis the Warlockmust fight his way to the

heart of Torquemada's empire.



To protect himself, Torquemada sends out attack waves of his

demented followers, the Terminators.



To complete each screen, Nemesis must first kill enough

Terminators to weaken their resolve. Then, and only then, can he

search for the exit to the next screen.



The exit from one screen to another can be anywhere leading off

the screen ( up, down, left or right ) and only trial and error

will reveal its location.



Nemesis need not rely only on his sword Excessus to kill his

enemies. If he manages to find any ammunition hidden on the

screen he can use his gun until he runs out of bullets.



On each screen Nemesis has the power, JUST ONCE, to spit fiery

acid at his tormentors. This will kill everything it touches!



As the bodies of dead Terminators pile up, Nemesis may find it

helpful to climb up or walk across them. In fact, this may often

prove essential if a screen is to be completed.



The longer it takes for Nemesis to leave a screen the greater

Torquemada's influence becomes on it. As Torquemada's face

becomes more visible at the bottom of the screen, he will direct

his twisted mind to the Terminator's corpses who will grotesquely

burst into life as scythe-wielding zombies.  Zombies are more

difficult to kill than Terminators, but once dead, they say

dead.



Watch out for the ghostly swords of dead Terminators.



The display at the bottom of the screen shows:-



1) A panel where Torquemada's face will gradually appear as his

influence grows.

2) The number of Terminators left to kill before Nemesis can

search for the way out to the next screen

3) The number of bullets in the gun

4) The heart of Nemesis. As he weakens, Torquemada's grip will

tighten. If the life blood is squeezed out of it, Nemesis dies!





HINTS/CHEATS



SEQUELS/PREQUELS



SCORES RECEIVED

Sinclair User Classic



URLS



GENERAL FACTS

Based on the Nemesis the Warlock character from 2000AD



NOTES

Sound by Rob Hubbard. Well spooky music!

