Complete Game Text

Every line of text extracted from the SMART EGG compressed data in both Part 1 and Part 2.

Part 1: Room and System Messages

Pointer table at $7983, 35 entries. Room descriptions, parser responses, inventory display, and game infrastructure.

Part 1: Action and Description Texts

Pointer table at $75F1, 255 entries total, 223 non-empty. All room descriptions, item examinations, event narration, dialogue, and death sequences. Selected highlights below (full list available in the Story page).

Opening and Elliot

It was dark. Harper could see nothing.Room 0

From somewhere in the darkness, he heard a low moan.Action 7

Harper scrabbled about in the dark until he found his night-sights.Action 8

Elliot was nearby, lying in the rubble. There was blood on his clothes. Feebly, he beckoned Harper closer. "Listen! Rigellians have Doomsday Device. Will devastate planet if they lose war! Go east across town. Cross no-man's-land. Find Device, disarm it, but beware android guard..." His voice grew weaker, yet more urgent. "Find my light-guide, buried in copse, use it to..." With these words on his lips, Elliot died.Action 12

The Suburbs and Bungalow

Harper looked about nervously. The street was deserted, but he had the strangest feeling he was being watched... followed...Action 106

A security light blazed on the front wall. There was a man in rags sitting on the porch beneath it, a pile of uniforms at his feet.Action 151

Before he could react, Harper felt a blow from behind and, as is usual in such circumstances, everything went black.Action 108

The Dogs

They must have been a mutated Rigellian strain. They certainly didn't look like any dogs Harper had ever seen before. Too big, for a start. Too many claws and teeth. Harper's collar suddenly felt a little tight. "Nice doggies!" he ventured without much conviction.Action 76

With a bark of appreciation, the little dog settled down to gnaw the bone.Action 69

One of the dogs gave a yelp as its fur was singed and the rest of the pack scattered across the grass in alarm...Action 75

The View-Bridge

A dome had once covered the town. A piece of the frame, a dozen linked hexagons, still stood along the western edge. There was a deserted camp to the north. To the east, a wide band of devastation formed no-man's-land. Beyond this were shops, factories and just outside, the dome, a spaceport. South, across a canal, lay the suburbs.Action 78 (panoramic view)

The Checkpoint

Several soldiers emerged from the hut, plasma rifles to the ready.Action 165

"Slib?" said one. They all looked at Harper quizzically.Action 175

All the commotion had woken up the bomb. "Psst!" it whispered to Harper, "Aren't you going to introduce me?"Action 191

The bomb said: "Ib! Ig nab 30 lin boom-boom! Devo do 29..." The soldiers' faces contorted into masks of pure terror! One of them grabbed the mine-detector and, with one accord, they sprinted off across the mine-field!Action 213

Deaths and Humor

The explosion which followed was deafening, but this didn't bother Harper who was spread all over the ceiling.Action 46

Unpleasant stuff, nerve gas. Effective, though...Action 226

Transfixed in horror, he watched as an enormous worm-like creature rose from the sands, to tower twenty feet above him! Red ichor dripped from the gaping maw that quickly engulfed him in warm pulsating darkness...Action 225

Completely nondescript (at least in this adventure). The sort one could find on any devastated and war torn planet, or council estate.Action 19

What a Mega programmer!Action 53 (easter egg)

Credits

RIGEL'S REVENGE. Copyright Mastertronic 1987. From Smart Egg SoftwareAction 63

Game design and scenario: RON HARRIS. Implementation and development: NIGEL BROOKS. Programming and system: SAID HASSANAction 62

Part 1: System and Error Messages

Pointer table at $9928, 7 entries.

Part 2: Game Objects

36 objects extracted from $2D00-$2FA0.

Part 2: Room Descriptions

The Hut

There was a table with two chairs in the middle of the hut. A transmitter covered in dials and various complex controls was resting on it.$30DE

The Plaza and Fountain

Harper was at the western end of a plaza with a fountain. A huge bronze cube, seemingly balanced upon one corner, spun at the centre of an ornamental pool. As the cube rotated, a constantly changing pattern of water cascaded off each face in turn.$330E

The Warehouse

Harper was by a pair of enormous twenty foot tall sliding doors that formed the entrance to the warehouse. There were some industrial dustbins lined up by the doors.$33AF

The Canal

Harper was on the north bank of the canal. Trees crowded right down to the water's edge here. Their roots twisted through the artificial bank to drink greedily from the canal, but those closest to the water were now dead wood or yellowed and rotting.$35C0

The Dome and Spaceport

Harper was at the eastern entrance to the town, beside the remains of the old geodesic dome. A vast spidery arch spanned the road, joining portions of the dome that stood to the north and south.$3876

Harper was standing just outside the entrance to the town. The sprawling fields of a busy spaceport lay all around. To the east, Rigellian soldiers were hurriedly loading a row of freighters and assorted ships waiting on the launchpads.$38E4

The Copse

Harper was at the heart of the copse. The trees formed a living veil around him, behind which the surrounding devastation seemed somehow to recede and fade away.$39E7

The Building and Shafts

Harper was outside the entrance to the building. It was large and ornate and had the look of a private residence that had been converted to military or scientific use. The door had been reinforced in steel with a card-slot in place of the handle.$3E82

The Laboratory and Generator

An abandoned laboratory. The equipment had been removed hurriedly, leaving dozens of score marks upon the floor, all converging upon the door in the north wall.$405F

Vast power generators dominated the room. There was a door in the north wall and in one corner, almost lost among all the equipment and machinery, there was a tiny trapdoor.$40CA

Part 2: Action and Event Text

The Sewer Monster

From out of the gloom, a vast amoeboid monster wobbled menacingly towards Harper! Its three huge eyes (huge to see in the subterranean darkness) stared at him with... hunger?$3B4C

The monster's outline seemed to flow and enlarge! Harper could see blood vessels pumping beneath its translucent skin. He could even see the expression on the face of its last victim, still being slowly digested within its stomach sac. Death by digestion, was this to be Harper's fate, too?$3BC2

The flare ricochetted off the low, arched ceiling of the sewer and landed on top of the startled monster! However, like any typically glutinous globule, the monster's first reaction was to absorb the item in question. The flare promptly ignited, and the monster exploded in a shower of wet slime that spread over the walls and ceiling and thoroughly drenched Harper.$3C9D

The Doomsday Device

Four dipswitches were arrayed next to the slot.$44F7

Coloured patterns of light began to flicker within the cube!$3176

The lights within the cube began to flash faster and faster, until a halo of pure white light surrounded the sphere! One of the cube's faces swung open and a metal arm extended outwards to deposit the sphere at Harper's feet.$4519

The sphere was small enough to hold in two cupped hands, but so dense that it was almost too heavy to lift.$45AD

The Timed Door Sequence

There was a polite knock at the door.$4293

There was another knock at the door; the handle rattled a few times.$42AC

Someone started banging at the door!$42D5

Harper could hear muffled shouts coming from the corridor.$42ED

Something heavy struck the door.$4314

The door was splintering!$432D

The door collapsed and several guards charged in! Harper found himself looking down the wrong end of a gun barrel.$433F

Meeting Japu

Harper was in a flooded basement. A figure stepped from the shadows. It was Japu, his contact. "You've made it at last! I was beginning to wonder... Do you have the detonator?" Japu leaned forward eagerly...$41FB

The Gas Attack

Harper was being gassed! He was suddenly engulfed in a billowing cloud of choking orange smoke! As he passed out, his last fading thoughts were of dragons and dwarves and unclimbable pits...$43A3

Gravity

Rigellian gravity, at 0.96g, is slightly lower than that of Earth. This, coupled with a higher air density, gave an extra 0.2 seconds for Harper's life to flash before his eyes. He had just reached a particularly interesting point, when...$491C

Discovery

Buried under a few inches of soft earth, Harper found Elliot's hidden light-guide.$49BF

Harper deftly unscrewed and then removed the grille.$48B1

The gate swung open... Harper retrieved the card and walked past; the gate closed behind him.$4668

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