Adventure of Bigfoot
By Curtis Borders
For Bunyon interpeter or TI-99/4A with Scott Adams' Adventure cartridge
Solution by Garry Francis
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This is a minimal solution. You'll need to EXAMINE or LOOK at lots of things for this solution
to make sense. Some optional (but significant) commands are shown in brackets. You can omit these
once you know what to do.
Your inventory is limited to 5 items, so inventory management is important to avoid any
backtracking.
There are 12 rooms in the desert. You get thirsty in 10 of these rooms. I have shown these as
"thirsty rooms" on my map. For every move you spend in a "thirsty room", a
counter is incremented. When the counter gets to 5, you are warned that you are getting thirsty.
When it gets to 7, you are warned again. When it gets to 9, you die of thirst. If you take a drink
of water, the counter decreases by 4. You can drink water as often as you like, as the supply seems
to be endless. You need to spend a minimum of 6 moves in the "thirsty rooms", thus you can
get through the desert without a drink of water, but it's probably safer to take at least one
swig just to play it safe.
N
LOOK CAN (you find empty bottles, matches and box)
GET BOTTLES
GET MATCHES
GET BOX
S
GET WATER (you now have bottles of water to drink when you get thirsty)
W
W
W
W
N
W
(LOOK SHACK) (it has broken windows)
DRINK WATER
DROP BOTTLES
ENTER WINDOW (you hear a rattling sound)
SAVE GAME (in case you get bitten by a rattler next move, this is random)
MOVE COT (you find a key or get bitten by a rattler, if the latter, start again)
GET KEY
GET LANTERN
GET SHOVEL
ENTER WINDOW
S
S
W
DROP KEY
LIGHT LANTERN
DROP MATCHES
ENTER MINE (opening collapses behind you)
DIG (you find gold nuggets)
GET GOLD (you put them in the empty box)
GET AXE
GET ROPE
DIG OUT
DROP SHOVEL
GET KEY
W
N
W
W
S
CHOP TREE (with axe, logs appear)
DROP AXE
GET LOGS
N
DROP LOGS
TIE LOGS (with rope, raft appears)
PUSH RAFT (what direction?)
TO RIVER
GO RAFT
PUSH OFF (you fall asleep and wake 4 hours later, jammed into a fallen tree)
EXIT RAFT
N
GO HUT
(LOOK CHEIF) (note bad spelling, he points to sky and repeats Yeti! Yeti! Yeti!)
(GET CAGE) (chief says "No! Me trade.")
GIVE GOLD (chief takes it and runs off)
GET CAGE
EXIT HUT
N
U
ENTER OPENING
(HELP) (Bigfoot is afraid of light)
DROP CAGE
UNLIGHT LANTERN (you hear a rustling sound)
LOCK CAGE (with key)
GET CAGE (you now have Bigfoot in cage)
EXIT CAVE
U
(LOOK MOUNTAIN) (you see a path)
GO PATH (you see a town below)
GO TOWN (cheering crowd greets you, you're a hero)
***THE END***
