THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE

NEMESIS THE WARLOCK

PUBLISHER
Martech

AUTHORS
Creative Reality (Jas Austin, Michael Archer, Dave Dew)

YEAR
1987

CATEGORY
Platform Arcade

DESCRIPTION
Hack and slash spectacular. Completely radical approach to
gruesome killing.  Basically a platform game with some superb
slaughtering action. The Terminators you kill fall dead onto the
ground ( if you shoot them, they fly backwards! ), upon which you
can use as platforms. As the bodies pile up, quite horrible
effects such as the reincarnation effect happen, causing
even more mayhem. Gruesomly brilliant.


CONTROLS
Action          Joystick                Default Keys
                ( All versions)         Spectrum
Left            <-                      Q
Right           ->                      W
Duck            v                       E
Jump            ^                       R
Swing Sword /   Fire                    T
Shoot Gun
Spit Acid                               SPACE
Quit                                    BREAK

INSTRUCTIONS

ORIGINAL INLAY CARD TEXT
To finish once and for all the evil regime of Torquemada, Grand
Master of Termight, Nemesis the Warlockmust fight his way to the
heart of Torquemada's empire.

To protect himself, Torquemada sends out attack waves of his
demented followers, the Terminators.

To complete each screen, Nemesis must first kill enough
Terminators to weaken their resolve. Then, and only then, can he
search for the exit to the next screen.

The exit from one screen to another can be anywhere leading off
the screen ( up, down, left or right ) and only trial and error
will reveal its location.

Nemesis need not rely only on his sword Excessus to kill his
enemies. If he manages to find any ammunition hidden on the
screen he can use his gun until he runs out of bullets.

On each screen Nemesis has the power, JUST ONCE, to spit fiery
acid at his tormentors. This will kill everything it touches!

As the bodies of dead Terminators pile up, Nemesis may find it
helpful to climb up or walk across them. In fact, this may often
prove essential if a screen is to be completed.

The longer it takes for Nemesis to leave a screen the greater
Torquemada's influence becomes on it. As Torquemada's face
becomes more visible at the bottom of the screen, he will direct
his twisted mind to the Terminator's corpses who will grotesquely
burst into life as scythe-wielding zombies.  Zombies are more
difficult to kill than Terminators, but once dead, they say
dead.

Watch out for the ghostly swords of dead Terminators.

The display at the bottom of the screen shows:-

1) A panel where Torquemada's face will gradually appear as his
influence grows.
2) The number of Terminators left to kill before Nemesis can
search for the way out to the next screen
3) The number of bullets in the gun
4) The heart of Nemesis. As he weakens, Torquemada's grip will
tighten. If the life blood is squeezed out of it, Nemesis dies!


HINTS/CHEATS

SEQUELS/PREQUELS

SCORES RECEIVED
Sinclair User Classic

URLS

GENERAL FACTS
Based on the Nemesis the Warlock character from 2000AD

NOTES
Sound by Rob Hubbard. Well spooky music!