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'''Release type:''' [[Freeware]]<br />
 
'''Release type:''' [[Freeware]]<br />
'''Release date:''' 1993<br />
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'''Release date:''' [[1992]] (original release)[[Category: 1992]]<br />
 
'''Levels:''' 5<br />
 
'''Levels:''' 5<br />
'''Author:''' [[Acord Games]]<br />
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'''Author:''' [[Gary Acord]]<br />
 
'''Website:''' [http://acordgames.webs.com/ Acord Games]<br />
 
'''Website:''' [http://acordgames.webs.com/ Acord Games]<br />
'''Related games:''' ''[[The Fantastic Zapman]]'', ''[[Zapper 4: Escape from Neverwhere]]'', ''[[Anyworld]]'', ''[[Houses]]'', ''[[Sample]]''
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'''Related games:''' ''[[Zapper 4: Escape from Neverwhere]]'', ''[[The Fantastic Zapman]]'', ''[[Superheroes]]'', ''[[Anyworld]]'', ''[[Houses]]'', ''[[Sample]]'', ''[[Terrain]]'', ''[[Spacecraft]]''
}}[[Category:Pending articles|Zapper 4 2]]<center>'''FULL ENTRY COMING SOON!'''</center>
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AKA ''Zapper 4-B: Still Lost in Zapperstein''.
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== Story ==
  
 
[[File:hneverwhereShot.png|320px|thumb|Stringing it together in ''Holy Neverwhere!'']]
 
[[File:hneverwhereShot.png|320px|thumb|Stringing it together in ''Holy Neverwhere!'']]
  
AKA ''Zapper 4-B: Still Lost in Zapperstein''.
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You were sitting at your computer one day, totally absorbed and hypnotized by its trance-inducing coruscations,when suddenly, zap! -- A ligntning bolt came crashing through the window and surged through you and your computer.
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Blackness overwhelmed you for a few seemingly endless moments. When your consciousness began to return, a swirling light of meaningless gyrations slowed down gradually until you began to perceive more clearly. You found yourself somehow blended into the heart of your computer in a landscape molded from transistors and chips, caught up, captured & trapped in a world beyond the limits of human imagination, another dimension, another time and space, you would come to call the enchanted land of Neverwhere -- a world wherein you would come to be called ZAPPER!
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[[File:HolyZapper.gif|center]]
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-- A world from which you MUST escape!
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==Instructions==
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[[File:Holy1.png|320px|thumb|Level 1 of ''Holy Neverwhere!'']]
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: Arrows move around.
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: Spacebar fires weapon.
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: Z jumps left. X jumps right.
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: A fires secondary weapon.
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: M makes small jumps.
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: P picks up objects. B drops bombs.
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: F1 is help screen.
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: F2 is inventory/health screen.
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: F3 joggles sound.
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: F5 saves game. F6 loads game.
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==Credits==
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[[Acord Games]]
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== Resources ==
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* Levels 1, 2, and 4 are based, respectively, on ''[[Houses]]'', ''[[Sample]]'', and ''[[Terrain]]''.
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* Levels 3 and 5 are also used in Acord's ''[[Spacecraft]]''.
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== Availability ==
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Distributed through contemporary bulletin boards, through the [http://acordgames.webstarts.com/ author's Website], and through several third-party mirror archives.
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Also available on several shareware compilation CD-ROMs, including:
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* Public Software Library's '''[[:Category:PSL Monthly 3-10: Education|PSL Monthly 3-10: Education]]'''[[Category:PSL Monthly 3-10: Education]] (August 1995)
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== Archive History ==
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On November 7, 2010, Demu.org maintainer Swizzle pointed out the archive of Gary Acord material on [http://www.demu.org/resources?textsearch=gary+acord the site] -- which was swiftly added to the Game-Maker Archive.
  
==Links==
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== Links ==
  
 
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=== Interviews / Articles ===
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* [http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/EJRTairne/20130516/192184/Inside_the_Mind_of_Gary_Acord.php Inside the Mind of Gary Acord] (Gamasutra)
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=== Misc. Links ===
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* '''[http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/java/zapper4b.php Play ''Holy Neverwhere!'' online]'''
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== Downloads ==
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* '''''[http://www.aderack.com/game-maker/downloads/never.zip Zapper 4-B: Holy Neverwhere!]''''' (1.2 MB)
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* [[Media:Holy1.png|Level 1 map]] (? kB)
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* [[Media:Holy2.png|Level 2 map]] (? kB)
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* [[Media:Holy3.png|Level 3 map]] (? kB)
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* Level 4 map (? kB)
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* [[Media:Holy5.png|Level 5 map]] (? kB)
  
 
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Latest revision as of 20:38, 18 August 2016

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Zapper 4-B: Holy Neverwhere!
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Release type: Freeware
Release date: 1992 (original release)
Levels: 5
Author: Gary Acord
Website: Acord Games
Related games: Zapper 4: Escape from Neverwhere, The Fantastic Zapman, Superheroes, Anyworld, Houses, Sample, Terrain, Spacecraft


THIS ARTICLE IS INCOMPLETE
FULL ENTRY COMING SOON!


AKA Zapper 4-B: Still Lost in Zapperstein.




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Zapper series

Story[edit]

Stringing it together in Holy Neverwhere!

You were sitting at your computer one day, totally absorbed and hypnotized by its trance-inducing coruscations,when suddenly, zap! -- A ligntning bolt came crashing through the window and surged through you and your computer.

Blackness overwhelmed you for a few seemingly endless moments. When your consciousness began to return, a swirling light of meaningless gyrations slowed down gradually until you began to perceive more clearly. You found yourself somehow blended into the heart of your computer in a landscape molded from transistors and chips, caught up, captured & trapped in a world beyond the limits of human imagination, another dimension, another time and space, you would come to call the enchanted land of Neverwhere -- a world wherein you would come to be called ZAPPER!

HolyZapper.gif

-- A world from which you MUST escape!

Instructions[edit]

Level 1 of Holy Neverwhere!
Arrows move around.
Spacebar fires weapon.
Z jumps left. X jumps right.
A fires secondary weapon.
M makes small jumps.
P picks up objects. B drops bombs.
F1 is help screen.
F2 is inventory/health screen.
F3 joggles sound.
F5 saves game. F6 loads game.

Credits[edit]

Acord Games

Resources[edit]

Availability[edit]

Distributed through contemporary bulletin boards, through the author's Website, and through several third-party mirror archives.

Also available on several shareware compilation CD-ROMs, including:

Archive History[edit]

On November 7, 2010, Demu.org maintainer Swizzle pointed out the archive of Gary Acord material on the site -- which was swiftly added to the Game-Maker Archive.

Links[edit]

Interviews / Articles[edit]

Misc. Links[edit]

Downloads[edit]