Zapper 4-B: Holy Neverwhere!
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
AKA Zapper 4-B: Still Lost in Zapperstein.
Contents
Story
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!
-- A world from which you MUST escape!
Instructions
- 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
Resources
- Levels 1, 2, and 4 are based, respectively, on Houses, Sample, and Terrain.
- Levels 3 and 5 are also used in Acord's Spacecraft.
Availability
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:
- Public Software Library's PSL Monthly 3-10: Education (August 1995)
Links
Interviews / Articles
- Inside the Mind of Gary Acord (Gamasutra)
Misc. Links
Downloads
- Zapper 4-B: Holy Neverwhere! (1.2 MB)
- Level 1 map (? kB)
- Level 2 map (? kB)
- Level 3 map (? kB)
- Level 4 map (? kB)
- Level 5 map (? kB)
