 VALHALLA Legend 1983

 CONTROLS : Keyboard
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 AIM : As a minor deity in the home of the Norse gods, Valhalla, you
 must rise on the social scale by completing six quests.

 GAMEPLAY : Valhalla is rather like a soap opera - the inhabitants
behave in their various ways and get on with their own lives without
any interference from you. They all have their own characters - Loki is
sneaky, Thor is violent and so on. The six quests you must complete are
to find various magical objects:

 1. Ofnir       - the key
 2. Drapnir     - the ring
 3. Skornir     - the shield
 4. Skalir      - the sword
 5. Felstrong   - the axe
 6. Frimnir     - the helmet

 Finding these is far from simple and some, if discovered, must be
deposited safely as you can't carry all of them together. As well as
that, if you die you are sent to Hell and your objects are randomly
scattered around the various locations, so you will have to start all
over again.

 As well as this you must interact with the other Valhallans, who
will either regard you with favour or hostility depending upon your
actions.  You can offer to sell or buy objects since you have money,
swords, axes, shield etc. (although these are merely ordinary,
non-magical ones). Be careful - it is all too easy to start a
potentially lethal fight!

 All of this activity is shown on the screen. If you type commands -
for example "drink the wine" - you will see your character carry out
that action. Moving from location to location is simply a matter of
entering the compass point direction (N, E, S, W) and a WHERE command
will list the available exits. Moving around within a location is
done using L (left) and R (right). If you have a (ordinary) ring,
you can use celestial ringways to transport to different locations.

 COMMENTS : "An excellent program all round." RATING : 81.5% (CRASH #1,
April 1984)

 NOW : A classic adventure game. VALHALLA is rather unforgiving but
is still not a bad game for adventure fanatics to play.
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