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From: weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Rosenberg)
Subject: Re: Maps in LTOI-1
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In article <C3zrw4.Mzt@cda.mrs.umn.edu> millernr@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Nathan R. Miller ) writes:
>
>   the Loose maps that came with the game are ALL hint maps. If you were
>to buy the visi-clues hints, they came with a snazzy map, along with the
>book. I bought the Zork I Visiclues, and the map in LTOI for Zork I is
>an exact duplicate. (It's on flimsier paper...) All the handout maps
>that you shuld have gotten with the game are bound into the manual.  A
>pain, I know. But then again, they didn't include all the nifty pack
>ins, either... *sigh* (I really wanted to replace my lost Don't Panic
>button).  So if you want to solve the game the way it would have come
>straght out of the box, Only use the book with the instructions.  The
>loose maps are to be used in conjunction with the hintbook. (Which is
>simply the Visi-clues all visible...The marker had it's own special
>touch, methinks...)

This is wrong.  At least two of the maps are NECESSARY to play the game and
came with the original game not with the invisiclues.  The two I can think of
are the map for BeyondZork and the map for Suspended.  The map that came with
Starcross isn't reproduced in LTOI but the information you need for it is
listed in the booklet.  I believe it actually mentions in the instruction book
that the maps for the two above games should be used from the beginning.

I still have my Don't Panic button and even wore it when I met Douglas Adams a
few months ago on his Mostly Harmless tour.  But there were other great
packins too...the microscopic space fleet, the peril sensative sunglasses, the
wishstone, the centipede from Lurking Horror, the postcards from Planetfall.
Remember the original packing?  When the games came in really cool shaped
boxed instead of the square generic ones.  Starcross in the huge plastic
saucer...

--Weasel

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