         MICHIGAN MIKE
  and The Lost City of Zorog

When the history books are 
examined, among the names of 
the Great adventures of our 
times, Marco Polo, Columbus, 
Livingstone, Vasco da Gama to 
name but four you will 
find......
  
  
     .....absolutely NO
mention of Michigan Mike.
 
Perhaps this sad state of 
affairs will be corrected with 
the telling of his great 
adventures in the form of 
these games, but first a brief 
history so you can maybe 
understand the tragic events 
that led up to his 
disappearance.
    
In June 1995 some papers were 
unearthed in a remote part of 
the rain forest. The tattered 
remains of these papers were 
the diaries of Michigan Mike.
  
From what was legible it was 
found that he was an explorer, 
born sometime in the early 
1900's. He had been part of an 
expedition in 1934 to map the 
great jungle of South America 
but on a fateful day in 
September 1934 he had become 
separated from the rest of the 
group and had wandered for 14 
days, every day going deeper 
and deeper into the jungle.
 
Tired and on the brink of 
death he had been found by a 
tribe called "The Ohla". He 
spent many weeks with the Ohla 
who helped him recover. 

But one day a fire swept the 
village killing the elders of 
the tribe. The Ohla blamed 
Michigan Mike and offered him 
to their god Zorog.

Zorog set him a quest, to find 
the 5 pieces of the Great ring 
of Zorog and to place them on 
the alter in the heart of the 
lost city. Zorog spoke of 
riches, giant wasps, worms and 
frogs, of traps, hidden 
doorways and switches of evil. 
If he was successful he could 
leave with his life and the 
riches. If not his soul was 
damned.
 
Michigans story is told here.

To help you here are some 
brief extracts from his diary:

 
"...I can't kill these evil 
creatures, even though I 
tried...."
 
"...my energy grows low I must 
find food soon, it was the 
switch that I thought would 
help me, it didn't...."
 
"....the potion I drank 
protected me for a while 
against these evil 
creatures,but not long 
enough..."
 
"....I searched high and low 
for the way out. I didn't 
realise the switch looked 
different and was a...."
 
"....I had to retrace my steps 
to reach the entrance. This is 
a god forsaken place..."
   
"...the vines almost killed me, 
I need to find a way to cut 
through them....."
   
The controls are easy:

Joystick  Action
 
Left      Left
Right     Right
Up        Jump
Down      Activates switch when 
          standing in front of 
          it.
Fire      Work it out.
 
If you make a wrong turn and 
can't continue, pressing the ESCAPE 
key will loss you a life and 
return you to the start of the 
level.
  
This adventure has been 
brought to you by Gordon 
Storey. It is public domain 
but the Copyright belongs to 
Gordon Storey, who takes no 
responsibility for any damage 
done from the use of this 
adventure in any shape or 
form. 

It was written on a Trusty 
old, battered, held together 
with masking tape 1040 STFM 
and a dusty, covered in fag 
ash 4160 STE using GFA Basic 
3.5e and Sprite Works (which 
is a must for all GFA people). 

I would like to thank Dave 
Sapstead and Ben watson for 
testing it. It was written for 
my 5 year old son Matthew, so 
blame him.
 
It requires a low rez source, 
joystick and 520k or more 
memory.

The next installment of 
Michigan Mike is being written 
for my son. If there is enough 
interest it may well be 
released.
 
Any comments, good, bad or 
indifferent (It would be nice 
to know what people think, 
Politely if you please) or 
even money can be sent to: 

Gordon Storey,
253 Ripon Road,
Stevenage,
Herts 
SG1 4LR.

Nest     ~ 90:102/200.4
Atarinet ~ 51:6/500.4
Turbonet ~ 100:105/0.4

"LIVE LONG AND PROSPER"
