Gold of the Realm Documentation Gold of the Realm requires at least 1meg of memory and joystick to play. Nigel knew it was going to be an odd day when he woke that morning. He had always been able to tell, when something unusual was about to happen, and sure enough, something did happen. A man died on his doorstep that night. needless to say, Nigel wasnt very surprised at this and handled the situation as best he could. He made the dying man comfortable in his last few minutes, giving him something to drink and trying not to ask silly questionssuch as where does it hurt?or Why are you dying on my doorstep? This kindnessdid pay off, mind you, for right before the dying man died, he told Nigel the most amazing secret... "Friend...."he managed to say, "listen to me closely, you will be the only one to know." Nigel listened, though mostly out of politeness, and the dying man went on. "it's there, all there, up in the mountains...Map, I have a map...take it." Puzzled, but interested, Nigel felt through the man's coat and found a leather tube. "Yes, yes that's it." sputtered the dying man. "It's yours...". Now Nigel, suddenly feeling inquisitive, muttered, "um, excuse me sir, but, where's this map to, I mean, whats it of?" A groan escaped the dying man and Nigel feared he must have said something rude, but then again, dying men are supposed to to groan like that arent they? nevertheless, the dying man continued. "The castles of the princes, it will show you the way!" "Castles of the Princes?" thought Nigel. Now that sounded familiar... "There are four castles, each contains the GOLD of the REALM...you can have riches beyond your dreams...take the map and explore each abondoned castle for your treasures." The GRAY castle was the Steel of Strength, Green for abundance of the land, Blue for the valience of the people, & Purple as the symbol of royalty! To save a game, you'll need a formatted disk. At the beggining of the game, you'll have option to begin a new game or continued a saved game from your save game disk.. Next, choose the difficulty level..EASY=1 castle with 79 screens to explore and is always the same game. Medium=2 castles and 159 screens...always the same game..while EXPERT is the most challenging...is different every game with 4096 possible games, all 4 castles and 320 different screens..with lots of items and traps! To pause-click left mouse button... opening doors- To open a closed door, stand close to it and press joystick button. some doors need keys of the same door color. once a door is unlocked using the correct colored key, it will vanish..one time use only. Picking up items- To pick up an item , stand next to it and press joystick button, the name of the item and image will appear in the status bar, in addition, if you have the scroll, you'll receive a breif description of the item. To drop an item, click left mouse button and move cursor to item, then click that item, which makes that item the active item..EI-key,candle,sword, etc...just press button to drop..(only on wooden floors can you drop) Stairs-stand next to one and press joystick button. Tips-Since this is an exploration game, i suggest you make maps..its real easy to get lost..and save gave when youve done alot of moving around...or accomplished anything big.! When the ghost is coming after you, run away..if he touches you, he takes away some strength and the item you have active..and places it somewhere in the castle... AS with locked doors, certain items are funtional only when carrying the right items.....when you have defeated all obstacles and gotten the treasure then go back to your horse and press joystick button. Comments about the game ------------------------------------------- Well...i kinda liked the game...it wasnt an action packed role playing game like i had hoped for like FAERY TALE or BARDS TALE or something, but it was crisp...you could spend days playing the hardest level! The game is kinda straightforward..not too much of a puzzle, you go into the castle and you can go up a level or down 2 more..and one the bottem level..ya need a candle so you can see..i found a wand and a sword on that level..dont know what ill need em for though...and you basically find keys that will open doors to other needed keys and so on and so on...like i had to go down a level and walk around and then go up a different staircase so i could access a different part of level 1..that i couldnt before..use my pink key to get a green key and go down another level to use green key to get a blue key...it just goes on..after you do all this chasing around for all the keys..ya get the gold pot and get out and win!!!..EXCITING to the max..the excitement was all around me, boy. Now, the hardest level was quite challening..ya can explore the outdoors as well...as least it was a little more challenging to have to find the castles first...they shouldve put more action fighting in it..oh well, its a good game for awhile..the hardest is definitely worth playing..if ya want something that wont finish in an hour...