TALES OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
(c)1984 Interceptor Micros.
Written by Ian Gray.
Music by Chris Cox.
Speech copyright Dont Ask Computer Software.
Produced by Richard Paul Jones.
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To operate this program you will require a joystick.

LOADING INSTRUCTIONS (C-64)
To load this program: Type LOAD "ARAB*",8,1
After a few minutes the progam will have loaded and then auto-
matically run, the title page and Logo will appear on the screen, 
at this point the game is ready to play. 
REMOVE AND STORE THE DISKETTE.

STORAGE
We recommend that the diskette should always be stored in its 
original packaging

CONTROLS - use joystick in Port 2

On walking levels, fire to jump.
On other levels, fire to cast a spell.
RESTORE aborts the game in progress.
Any key to PAUSE, any key to restart.

OPTIONS 
If a trainer version is used (Computerbrains) you get first the 
trainer selection screen. You can select the number of live 
(normally 3) and/or the starting level/scene (normally 1). 
Press S to get to the game title page, where you can select:

F1 - music on/off
F3 - speech on/off

Press fire to start the game.

OVERVIEW OF THE GAME
Guide Imrahil the Kalendar Prince through the perils of many 
Arabian nights. On certain nights, he must gather golden jugs, 
engraved with letters, in the correct order to spell out 
'ARABIAN'.

At other times, he rides on rafts and flying carpets through 
Arabia, casting bolts of lightning at his foes. His quest for 
the princess Anitra is long and difficult - many dangers lurk 
in the Arabian night!

THE TALE OF THE KALENDAR PRINCE
An expectant hush settled upon the tribesmen. Scheherazade, most
famous story-teller of the Bedouin, stood in the moonlight 
between the plam trees, and began her tale.

'Long ago, in the city of Baghdad, there lived the Sultan 
Saladin. Convinced of the faithlessness of women, he swore to put 
to death each of his wives after the first night. In time his 
avaricious gaze fell upon beautiful Anitra, a princess of the 
Kalendar province. His soldiers came silently in the night, and 
by dawn they and their helpless captive were far away.

'The fate of the wives of Saladin was known throughout Arabia, 
and greatly was he loathed by the people of the land. But such 
was the awesome might of his armies, that no-one dared to
oppose him, even in thought. None that is, save Imrahil, eldest 
prince of Kalendar, who set out on the trail of his beloved 
sister with vengeance in his heart.

His quest began aboard Sinbad's ship, sailing the Red Sea. 
Despite the many hazards of the long ocean voyage, Imrahil 
safely came ashore at the delta of the river Annil. Aboard a 
simple raft, he followed the river upstream, until the waters 
swept him into a great cavern, deep in the bowels of the Earth. 
Here he fought with the bewitched genies of Al-Khemizd, too 
dreadful even to imagine. Escaping from the cavern, on a flying 
carpet stolen from the blind weaver Ahxmihnsta, Imrahil fought 
his way through the skies, across the burning desert - 
to Baghdad!

'Dodging the guards at the city gates, Imrahil ran along the 
high walls to the gardens of the Sultan's palace. He climbed 
swiftly up the tallest tree in the gardens, and jumped through 
a window into the palace. He fought past the guards, and reached 
the battlements, where Anitra was being held by the Sultan! 

Swiftly they leapt together onto the carpet and rose high above
the towers of Baghdad.'


THE GAMEPLAY
Prince Imrahil's sister has been kidnapped by the evil Sultan
Saladin and taken to Baghdad. It's up to you to rescue her.

The game has 8 scenes or levels. You can get a preview of them 
by waiting at the title screen.

Scene 1
The game begins aboard one of the Sultan's ships where you must
collect, in order, the golden jugs each bearing one of the
letters in the word A-R-A-B-I-A-N. Various unpleasant creatures 
infesting the ship will make your task harder.

Scene 2
You have to make your way upriver...

Scene 3
The next scene is set in a great cavern where you encounter 
Al-Khemized and his genies. Once again, you have to put the 
jugs in the right order. 

Scene 4
You must then cross the desert on your flying carpet to get 
to Baghdad.

Scene 5
At the city gates you have to sort out the jugs yet again while
avoiding the hail of arrows and boulders. 

Scene 6
Then it's on to the garden, where you must avoid the arrows 
fired at you.

Scene 7
...And into the palace where you have to order the jugs for one 
last time.

Scene 8
Having rescued the Princess, you must make your getaway on a
magic carpet, while avoiding the arrows and birds en route.

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COMMENT by Magnus
Arabian Nights is for me a classic game, I remember a friend 
bought this and we played it till we dropped. There was nothing 
really revolutionary about it, except for perhaps the synthe-
sized speech. Remember the spoken words "Imrahil began his 
quest on Sinbad's ship..." !


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