Date   : Wed, 19 May 1999 15:39:27 +0100 (BST)
From   : Graham Hazel <ghazel@...>
Subject: Re: Citadel

On Wed, 19 May 1999, Dr Stephen Cumpson wrote:

> I have completed much of this game, but never all. For example, I
> been through The Pyramids, The Witch's House, The Palace, Destroyed
> the Star Port. I have never been past a coloured ball to the very
> far right of the game, after the sea.
>
>  If anyone can help me I'd be grateful.

Destroying the Star Port is the main aim of the game, and if you've
got that far you must have solved enough puzzles to get most of the
points.  (There are 99 available.)
The only things left (that I can remember) are taking the blue bars to
Stonehenge (see below) which are 2pts(?) each and finding the three
crowns which are worth 3 pts each.  (I think when the game was first
released there was a cash prize for the first person who could quote
the grid references of the crowns... ring any bells?)
Anyway, if I recall correctly there were (at least) two slightly
different versions of the game.  In one (the later one?) there was a
crown which was fairly easy to find at the bottom of the well
somewhere, although you had to mess around with the ice crystal to get
at it.  The other two crowns were in hidden rooms through secret
passages, one in the witch's house and one in the greenish place with
barrels that I think was called the cellar (hint: you need a
trampoline for that one).  Never found the third crown in the other
version.  There wasn't one down the well.  Perhaps the second version
came about because it was just too hard.

You can't get past the coloured ball, although as someone else pointed
out, you can bounce over it to the title screen... if you jump off the
edge of that then you fall and fall and fall and fall and... land on
the roof of the citadel!

> I did a map one time if you're interested, just let me know.

Cool.  I assume it's in a computery format rather than pen and ink?

[...a different message...]

> 1) In the witch's house there is a cauldron. If you jump over it
> while carrying certain objects, they disappear into the cauldron. I
> think there were 3 items you need to put in the cauldron. When you
> have done that the witch dies when she touches the cauldron.  One of
> the items needed is a skull I think, and maybe the others look like
> bars of gold or something

There's a skull (from the top of a green tower on the roof
somewhere?), and two (red?) bars, one to be found in the citadel,
can't remember where, and the other in the pyramid (I think).

> 2) If you have one of those blue bars you get something like 30
> health in exchange for it at stonehenge

Another slight difference between the versions.  In one version you
get health and in the other the bar turns gold (but is then completely
useless...)  Still worth a few points though.

Hope some of this is helpful.

Graham