Big Red Adventure (Core Design/Dynabyte)
Walkthru by John Barnsley.
INTRODUCTION
In the old Russia there was communism, queues, the Kremlin, the KGB, the
Cold War and....more queues! In the new Russia, things have changed
somewhat. Now there is capitalism, KGB TV, McRomanov's Burgers and the
Super Marx brothers!! In an attempt to make sense of this new Russia,
you take charge of Doug, Dino and Donna, solving problems, dodging
captors and gettinginto all sorts of crazy capers.
After the end of the communist regime, the Kremlin Palace - once the
seat of Soviet power - was transformed into a museum. In here are kept
the most important relics of Russian history, including Tsar Ivan the
Horrible's famous crown. As you join the game, Doug, our hero, is
casing the joint getting ready to steal the prized crown of the Tsar
which is encrusted with diamonds, pearls and open cheques! Other
important historical items live within these halloed walls. Leo
Tallstory's typewriter which he used to write his most famous novel -
"War and Pacemaker". Strabinsky's piano on which he composed the score
"The Firepig" is also on display, but the pick of the bunch is the focus
of Doug's attention as well as the large security presence.
PART ONE
Hotel Room
Back in the hotel, Doug examines the photos taken at the museum on the
grand tour, ready to hatch a fiendish plot to steal the famous Tsar's
crown. Using your inventory, open the envelope to discover the
photographs from the museum. They have been developed as follows:
Picture 1: The crown picture shows the locations
of the scanners.
Picture 2: Museum security at front door.
Picture 3: Museum roof and trapdoor.
Picture 4: Same gallery, but including one
of the cameras.
Picture 5: Miss Glasnost 1993 at a fashion show
in Red Square.
Now examine each one of the photographs closely and go over to your
suitcase. Pick up the suitcase using your inventory options and examine
the contents. Here you will find a tape recorder and a tape measure for
use later in the game. Now move over to the desk with the TV set on it
and pick up the camera and then the remote control, using it to turn on
the TV. You will now be watching the end of the Matrioska Show. The
show's presenter, Stroganoff, will then tell you how to enter the show.
He puts up an open invite to meet him at The Russian Doll Show. To
play, you need only send the ticket from New Pravda, the local TV guide.
Before moving out of your room and into the foyer, pick up the TV aerial
and add it to your inventory. Now exit to the hotel foyer.
The Foyer
In the hotel foyer pick up and take the rope on the wall next to the
entrance to your room. Now go over to the Porter and give him your key
before moving the cursor to the bottom of the screen to find the way way
out. Once outside go to the Newsagents. Look at and buy all the
magazines.
On examination, you will find the Encyclopedia of Opera has a free
cassette, the New Pravda has your free ticket and the Capital has a
stamp. Buy all these magazines by firstly talking to the Newsagent. If
you run out of cash, put the TV aerial on the scales to the left of the
stand and receive a further four rouble dollars.
Examine the free ticket to find you will have to answer three questions
to qualify:
1. How many R's are there on the label of
Dostoyevsky Caviar, the Muscovite's favourite?
2. What is the height, in cans of Vodkacola, of the
statue of Karl Marx which stands in Red Square?
3. What is the weight of the Great Bear, the bear meat
hamburger produced by the Burger Tsar Fast Food Chain?
To answer these questions, read on!
Red Square
To the right outside the Hotel is the way to the gum store in Red
Square. The queue is huge so point to the right of the bae of the
statue and click when another caption comes up. This takes you across
to the burger joint McRomanov. Once there, go to the bottom right
corner to examine the old red car and find a broken camera. Take the
broken camera and examine it to find a brand new film and then walk over
to the burger bar. Buy a vodkacola and then a sandwich. When asked
Maxi or Gigantic, go for Gigantic, then go for the great bear burger.
Don't eat your burger and don't drink your cola, just take the salt and
the bread from the counter before walking back over to Red Square.
Head straight to the first man in the queue for the gum store. You will
talk to a large bearded man, who tells you that the queue is for razor
blades which have only just come back into stock after months. Finish
the conversation and go to the Japanese tourist, standing in the middle
of the square. Talk to the tourist and give him your camera so he can
take a picture of you with the statue in the background.
Repeat this operation a few times before the picture is correct, so
after taking each photo examine it. After the third duff picture your
film runs out. Ask to borrow one from the tourist, before selecting the
spare film until you manage to reload it. The fourth photo is correct,
showing Doug beside the statue about half it's size. This will help to
work out how high the statue is in cans of Vodkacola.
Examine the photo then measure the can of cola with the tape measure
that you found in the case. To do this, select the can and keep doing
so until Doug works out what to do. The can is 12cm tall, Doug is 168cm
tall and the statue is twice his height, so the statue is the height of
28 cans of Vodkacola. This answers Question 2 on the free ticket.
In order to answer Question 3, go back to the scales to the left of the
Newsagents. On arrival, weigh yourself and then eat the burger and
weigh yourself again. The difference gives you the weight of the
burger. You will find that Doug has put on seven pounds, so the weight
of the burger is seven pounds.
The Park
Go to your hotel room again and pick up your computer before heading to
the park. In the centre of the park is a small boy sitting on a park
bench playing a hand-held console. Go up to him and swap your laptop PC
for his cheap console. This may sound like a crazy idea, but this is a
crazy game and the cartridge that you find in the console will come in
very handy. Go further into the park and wait around until you see a
street peddler. Talk to him and he tries to sell you a watch, before
turning and walking away.
Remember where you see him for future reference before heading for the
Rail Station, found on the road behind the Newsagents. When you arrive
at the Station go in and select the cartridge from the console and use
it on the cash machine to the left. This overrides the system and gives
you 100 Rouble dollars.
You will come back to the station later in the game, but for now head
back to the park after noticing the KGB TV building is next to the
station. En route to the park, stop off and talk to the man at the
front of the queue again. Doug will ask him to buy a tin of
Dostoyevsky's Caviar in return for a roll of toilet paper. Now go back
to the park and purchase the toilet roll from the peddler. This will
cost you the 100 Rouble dollars you got from the cash machine.
Once you have the loo roll head back to the queue to swap it for the tin
of caviar. Now examine the tin to find the answer to the final question
on the free ticket. There aren't any R's on the label! Now that you
know all three answers, go straight back to the hotel foyer.
The Show
Once you arrive back at the hotel lobby, go up to the Porter and ask to
borrow a pen to fill in the ticket. Select the ticket to fill it in and
then put the ticket in the envelope in your inventory, using the pen to
fill out the address. Next, select the stamp from your inventory in
order to post the ticket correctly.
Leave the hotel and go to the KGB Studios located next to the Rail
Station. When you get there, post the letter. Now rush back to the
hotel and ask the Porter if there's any mail for you. The Porter will
now hand you your reply from the Studio.
Open the reply and discover an invite to The Russian Doll show and the
tickets. Don't waste time, get over to the KGB Studios and hand in the
ticket to the receptionist. She gives you a badge and directs you to
Studio 5 for the show. When you arrive you will be put straight on air.
There are three questions about thieves to answer and, if you get them
correct, you go on to answer the big question and win an air balloon.
Don't worry if you get the questions wrong, you simply take a different
route for the rest of Part One. Both are explained here.
If You Win The Quiz
Go back to the hotel room and enter the toilet after collecting your
prize and adding the studio lights to your inventory. This leads to a
new scene high above the city in your air balloon. Fly to the museum
and land on the roof. Once inside the museum, go to the Crown Room and
switch on the lights near the crown. This blocks out the photo cells
stopping the alarm going off. Now go into the next room and combine the
cassette with the recorder and use it. This will blast out the
wonderful sounds of opera, breaking the glass cases in the process. Now
pick up the ring and computer and go into the Crown Room. Select the
diamond ring and use it on the crown case to cut a hole in the glass.
The crown is now ready to be snatched but, unfortunately, not by you as
another thief suddenly appears and snatches the crown from under your
nose.
You end up in your hotel room again, with your picture in every
newspaper in Moscow. You have to get the hell out of here, but how?
Firstly, go to the Newsagents and buy a copyof Consolphobia magazine.
Examine it and find that the password for the Trotsky's mainframe
computer is the name of the tenor who sings with Donna Catale at the
Bolshoi. Leave the hotel and head down to the Burger place where you
meet some dodgy friends, Alex and Kos. They tell you that they have a
plan to break into the Trotsky Software mainframe and that they want you
to do it. In return they will give you a passport so you can leave
Moscow before you're arrested.
They go on to tell you that the mainframe computer is on the Worldwide
Communication Network and that their E-Mail address is Lenin.Komm. Head
back to your hotel room and combinr the TV remote control with the tape
recorder and then attach that to the ZX81. All you have to do is find
the mode number for the WWC Network. To do this, go to the KGB Studios
and examine the reception desk to find a scrap of paper. Look at that
piece of paper to gain the Internet number for the WWC Network, which is
KGB.NET 007 6 1 0. Now you can use it on the telephone in your hotel
room to get the tape recording for Alex and Kos. Take the tape to Alex
and Kos to get your passport and then head swiftly to the station and
show your passport to the guard in order to board the Orient Express and
get the hell out of there!
If You Lose The Quiz
You win a consolation prize of a keyring and then you're left in the
Studio. Pick up the studio lights and use the keyring on the doll's
head in order to enter a secret passage leading to the Museum. Once
inside the Museum, go to the Crown Room and switch on the lights near
the crown. This stops the alarm. Now go into the next room and combine
the cassette and the recorder and then use it. From this point on,
follow the procedures laid out in the 'If You Win' solution.
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