Doomsday Castle

DOOMSDAY CASTLE - FANTASY SOFTWARE

It is common knowledge that in the deepest recesses of time there
existed a race of strange diminutive creatures often referred to as
elves who had amazing magical powers. For some obscure reason these
creatures took it upon themselves to cast magical rings and things in
which they invested awesome powers. You'd have thought that they would
have looked after these rings pretty well but oh no, the elves managed
to lose them all at one time or another with the result that the
entire Universe is strewn with the things, usually in the daftest of
places; the craters of volcanoes, bottoms of swamps etc. All this has
caused no end of trouble since although intended for doing good their
power inevitably ends up in the hands of some evil so-and-so out to do
no good at all.

Just for a change one day, obviously fed up with casting magic rings
to lose, the elves collected 6 large stones in which they invested the
power to influence the mind.

As a safeguard against misuse they introduced a destruct mechanism
whereby if the stones are in close proximity in a confined space their
combined power would be too great, causing a chain reaction and in
seconds, total annihilation.

The elves, of course, lost the six stones and we find them some
millions of years later turning up in the hands of the infinitely evil
Scarthax ('infinitely evil' is perhaps a slight exaggeration but he
really is a nasty piece of work and no other adjective seemed to fit
as well!). Scarthax discovered the destruct mechanism and built
Doomsday Castle to house them safely apart but close enough to use
their power and radiate it throughout the cosmos to corrupt and bring
every creature in the Universe within his influence.

Fortunately for us, there is an enormous waiting list of budding
super-heroes all eager to do battle with the forces of evil (this is
really quite surprising since the survival rate among new recruits is
pitifully low). Of these super-heroes, Ziggy is a legend in his own
lifetime, a super-hero to end all super-heroes and it is his role that
you have the privilege of taking in this game. For those of you who
have bought 'THE PYRAMID' Ziggy will need no further introduction. For
those of you who haven't, I suggest you go out and buy it immediately
and find out all about him.

Before revealing the details of the game it is worth giving you some
information about the various creatures you will be doing battle with
and the capability of your exploratory capsule.