Perseus

A game for the ZX Spectrum 128k by RetroBensoft

Polydectes entrusts Perseus with an impossible mission: to find Medusa's lair and kill her.

To do this, Perseus must obtain the gold coins in the possession of the mythological creatures that will appear along his path such as minotaurs, cyclopes, grayae, and satyrs. With them, Perseus will be able to gather from the Statues of Delphi the six pieces of the Parchment of Wisdom, which will guide him into Medusa's hiding place.

But don't let Perseus be deceived by his pride, cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.

 

Power-ups

• Bottle = Energy
• Knife = 5 more knives
• Ray = Speed up
• Shield = Invisibility

  

Controls (keyboard, sinclair joystick, kempston joystick)

• LEFT - Walk left
• RIGHT - Walk right
• UP – High jump / Climp up ladder
• DOWN - Crouch down / Pick up a power-up / Climb down ladder
• FIRE- Punch / Enter into a gate / Throw knives (when Perseus is crouching down)
• LEFT/RIGHT + UP – Lateral jump (when Perseus is idle)
• LEFT/RIGHT + UP – Long jump (after Perseus has walked a couple of steps)
• LEFT/RIGHT + DOWN – Roll over (after Perseus has walked a couple of steps)

  

Default keys

• O - Left
• P- Right
• Q - Up
• A - Down
• SPC - Fire
• H - Pause (fire to resume)
• Y - Quit (fire to confirm, any other key to resume)

 

Tips

1.  If you try to long-jump before Perseus has walked a couple of steps, instead he will make a lateral jump.
2. If you try to roll over before Perseus has walked a couple of steps, instead he will crouch down.
3. You need to collect  50 coins to get every single piece of the Parchment of Wisdom from the Statues of Delphi
4. Watch this tutorial  to learn how to move with Perseus
5. Perseus is an easy game once you master all its moves. Don't give up!

 

Developing Tools

• Tuerkas128 Framework by RetroBensoft (framework)
• Notepad++ by Don Ho (text editor)
• Pasmo by Julian Albo (Z80 assembler)
• ZEsarUX by César Hernández Bano (code & game testing)
• Retro Virtual Machine by Juan Carlos Gonzalez Amestoy (code debugging, sound tracker fine tuning)
• Gentape by Antonio Villena (tap generator)
• Multipaint by Tero Heikkinen (loading screen & intro)

 

Ackkonwledgements

• Manuel Pena (original sketch of Graia)
• Ramón Fernández Ameijeiras (sinclair joystick tester)
• David Gonzalo aka Z80user (code optimization for the loader)
• André Leão (portuguese version proofreading)

 

Dedicated to

Sara & Susana

Feedback

Your comments are welcome.

 

Se habla español.

 

;-)