PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 14 of 22

In this entry, we finally explore the inside of the power plant. Also, Windows decides to mess with newly applied (at the time) in-system noise reduction settings regarding the microphone. That gets fixed before next time.

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Be sure to check the bottom of the power plant before making your way up for Nitro Eggs, rotten eggs, and giftboxes.

The guys with the shock sticks will shock the metal floors if given the chance. You'll need to hit them with the Slime Shooter and get up to them to hit them with the bad breath attack before they shock the floor and do a lot of damage. Remember that they will jump around when you aim at them with the Binoculars and the Slime Shooter.

Some of the climbable walls will be electrified. You can slime the walls with the Slime Shooter and slime a portion of the wall so that you can climb straight up. The slime will dissipate after a while, so you'll want to get up the wall pronto. Also, if you have to backtrack, jump off the edge in case there's an electrified wall below; just dropping down will get you shocked.

The Slime Shooter can also be used to take out the cameras. This will ensure safe passage through some doorways.

The sentry robots are back. Take them out with Nitro Eggs.

Shoot the green buttons with the Rotten Egg Launcher to turn them red and turn off the generators. There are four generators in all, you'll turn off all the power in Whoville and complete one of the missions. You'll also unlock the Grinch Copter blueprint piece at the bottom, although you'll be forced to the exit and then forced to re-enter once you shut off all four generators. You'll also unlock a shortcut to the central dump next to the Mount Crumpit vacuum tube so you don't have to take the long way back and forth.

Some green buttons will deactivate power lines, and you'll want to shoot those buttons to deactivate the lines so you can shimmy across when necessary. If you don't see the button immediately, look around in the immediate vicinity; you'll find the button eventually.

For some reason, the frame rate chugs in certain spots, especially if you don't have all the generators shut off.

Grinch Copter Blueprint 11

Grinch Copter Blueprint 12

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 13 of 22

In this entry, we finally enter the power plant section of the dump area.

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Back at the dump, you'll need to head back to the metal doors. If you haven't already, slime the things that look like security camera to the sides of the doors with the Slime Shooter, do it now. After that, the floor near the door will no longer be electrified, and you can climb up the doors with the Octopus Climbing Device to enter a new area.

You'll be spending a bit of time in this area just to short-circuit the power plant, so be ready to look around and destroy any giftboxes that you see.

The guys with the shock sticks will electrocute you if you get close enough, but you can defeat them with your bad breath. Use the Nitro Eggs lying around to destroy the robots.

Pancake the grates to get to the giftboxes below. Also, watch out for the steam coming from the wall pipes; it will hurt you.

Keep hitting the wind activated switch with the bad breath attack to get some platforms moving and get up to the top of the towers. Hit the green buttons at the top of the tower to deactivate the power lines so you can get across without getting shocked. Watch out for guards, as they will see you, so be ready to hit them with bad breathe.

You'll find a red button behind the protection field. Switch to Max to step on and activate it, then hit the rest of the nearby switches that turn red with Max (it does not matter which order, as long as they turn green). You'll soon be able to turn off the protection field and get The Grinch closer to the power plant.

You'll soon have to Rocket Spring up to some more towers and hit some more green buttons with the Rotten Egg Launchers. As for the rat guards on the lines, you'll need to destroy them with the Rotten Egg Launcher. At the other side, you'll have to hit more switches with Max. 

You'll soon be able to head downwards and find three turbines. You'll need to activate the wind activated switches with the bad breath attack to get the turbines powered up so you can use the turbine blades as platforms. Use your shadow to ensure that your jumps are good, and watch out for the sudden camera change on the other side.

At the power plant entrance, drop down for some giftboxes, then get back up and use the power line to drop down into the middle area, destroy the giftboxes there, then hit the green button on the tower with the Rotten Egg Launcher. The switch will open the door to the power plant, but it's a trick, as you're not going to be able to get there in time due to the timer not having enough time for you to get there anyway. Head to the door, anyway. From the door, find the green button on the tower, then use the Binoculars and the Rotten Egg Launcher to hit it. You'll then be able to enter the power plant.

Grinch Copter Blueprint 9 (use Max to get this)

Grinch Copter Blueprint 10

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 12 of 22

We make some big progress with Whoforest before running out of ideas as to what to do again...

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The stalactites on the ceiling can be shot down with the Rotten Egg Launcher. This is how you get the blueprint piece encased in ice mentioned in the last video, and it's for the Grinch Copter. You'll need to shoot two more to open up the other half of the cave.

Remember that weird looking wall in the cave that looked like an ice cream sandwich that I tried to climb with the Octopus Climbing Device? You actually have to jump into the flat part on the top and grab onto it, then shimmy left. There's a Grinch Copter Blueprint piece on the other side.

The beast at the top needs to be breathed on; otherwise he will keep throwing rocks down. Break the nearby ice wall to find a platform with a guy in a green bodysuit, breathe on him to get his giftbox, then swing to the other side for more giftboxes and the final firework.

When you get all ten fireworks, you can approach the cake, press Triangle to place the fireworks, then enjoy the explosive results.

We're done with this area (for now, but not permanently), so let's take the cable car now that we have the access card. You'll have to deal with more green bodysuit enemies as well as snowball throwers. The Third Heart of Stone can easily be found. 

One of the enemies drops a giftbox that falls off the ledge onto the ground below. Keep that in mind when taking out all the enemies for their giftboxes in the cable car area.

A beast blocks a small cave with presents that only Max can access. Wait for the beast to swing, then breathe on them. (No wonder I was getting lucky with the beasts.) There is another small cave for Max near the ski lodge at ground level that contains a Grinch Copter blueprint piece.

To slime The Mayor's skis, there are two spots with snow hanging off of them. Shoot either of them as the dog is underneath, and when the dog is buried in a snow, you'll see a timer. Use this time to slime The Mayor's skis to complete one of the missions as well as get the nearby Grinch Copter blueprint piece. If the dog sees The Grinch, the dog will charge; if the dog touches The Grinch, it's instant death.

There are giftboxes in mid-air that you won't be able to get with the Rotten Egg Launcher. You'll have to come back later for them.

Watch out for the falling icicles near the ski lodge while pancaking giftboxes; they hurt.

Grinch Copter Blueprint 5

Grinch Copter Blueprint 6

Firework 10

Heart of Stone

Grinch Copter Blueprint 7

Grinch Copter Blueprint 8

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 11 of 22

With Octopus Climbing Device in hand, we head back to Whoforest.

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Back at the Whoforest, we can go back to the house with the locked chest back at the beginning, trap the bees blocking the chest with the Slime Launcher, then pancake the chest to get the Cable Car Access Card. This will let us use the cable car and access another area of the Whoforest.

With the Octopus Climbing Device, you can climb up the ice wall. This will allow you to enter the White Mountain Civic Center. The lever will active the bridge, but you will only have a limited time before the bridge goes back down.

There are giftboxes encased in ice. Pancake their icy prisons first, then destroy the giftboxes from there

At one point, you'll need Max to enter a small hole in a door. Max can break giftboxes just by running into them. 

The targets with the fireworks must be shot with the Rotten Egg Launcher, and you'll need to collect the Firework that the targets drop after you hit them. 

The Whos in the green bodysuits shoot at you with ice guns that will freeze you in place, and you'll need to move the D-Pad all over to break free. If you can breathe on them with your bad breath attack, you can get rid of them and also get them to drop a giftbox.

The cave beasts are back, and you'll need to be ready to deal with them. There is a big one that you'll need to tiptoe past, or else you'll get smacked backwards every time you approach it.

The dancing guys have targets on their chest, and you'll need to wait for them to stop moving before you can hit them in the chest with the Rotten Egg Launcher and knock them off the platforms. You can then pancake them to get giftboxes from them, although I don't figure that second part out...yet.

To get rid of the guy blocking the door to the cake, you'll need to hit both sides of the sign above the doorway he is blocking with the Rotten Egg Launcher. When you pull that off, the sign will knock the guy out on the way down, and you can get a giftbox in addition to access to the cake. 

If you can sneak past the bats, you can enter a cave where there are some climbable walls as well as plenty of giftboxes. There is a blueprint piece encased in ice, but you won't be able to pancake it to break it out. You'll need to do something else.

Breakaway bridges can break when you run across them, but will stay intact if you tiptoe across.

You'll need to tiptoe across the log to get to that one firework. Walking across the log will cause you to fall down.

The weird looking part of the wall that looks like you can climb on it actually has a ledge inside of it. You'll need to jump into the ledge with the Rocket Spring to grab it and shimmy across with the D-Pad, although I don't figure that out...yet.

Cable Car Access Card

Firework 1 (collected here)

Firework 2

Firework 3

Firework 4

Fireworks 5, 6, 7 and 8 (collected here, here, here, and here)

Firework 9

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 10 of 22

In this entry, we head to the dump and shave the dump guardian, then build the Octopus Climbing Device.

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It's time to enter the dump.

The ground with all of the blast marks is a minefield, basically making the floor lava. If you land on the ground full of blast marks, you'll be sent all the way back to the entrance.

You'll need the Rotten Egg Launcher, the Rocket Spring and the Slime Shooter for this part. The Rotten Egg Launcher will be used to shoot down all the mattresses that are suspended in mid-air so you can bring them down and use them as platforms. The Slime Shooter is used to disable the sentry robot at the entrance to the dump temporarily, allowing you to enter the dump proper. You'll have 60 seconds to get to the other side of the dump.

Once you've got access, however, you can't simply waltz in there. This is where the Rocket Spring comes in. You'll need to launch yourself from one platform to another with the Rocket Spring, and if you land on the ground with the blast marks at any point, you'll be forced to start over from the entrance, and you'll also have to re-slime the sentry robot. There are Rotten Egg plants near the entrance that you can refill with is, and there are a few in the dump itself for just in case.

When you get to the other side, you'll want to get to the orange hut to the side. You'll find another blueprint piece for the Octopus Climbing Device on the outside as well as the scissors on the inside. You'll need the scissors to shave the dump guardian. 

At the big orange house, you can find another Octopus Climbing Device Blueprint piece as well as one of the four Hearts of Stone that the game has. When you enter the house, you'll want to sneak at all times, as you don't want to wake up the dump guardian. Be sure to look around the stairs for the last blueprint piece for the Octopus Climbing Device, then sneak up the stairs to get up to the dump guardian without getting caught. Sneak up to the dump guardian with the scissors to give him the shaving of his life and complete the shaving mission. Getting this done not only gets rid of the dump guardian, but it also gets rid of the sentry robot at the beginning of the area, so you'll never have to deal with them again.

If you want to check your work quickly and easily, summon Max with Select and have him run around. He can pick up collectibles and Rotten Eggs, so if you missed something, you can still grab it. The mines also don't hurt him. You're done in the dump, so step on the mines for a shortcut back.

With the Octopus Climbing Device, you can climb on certain walls by jumping into them and pressing Circle when the device is equipped. If the device activates, you can climb on it. From there, you can control The Grinch with the D-Pad, and you can pull yourself up a ledge by holding Up on the D-Pad and pressing Circle. If you press Circle while anywhere else on the wall, you will drop down. The device will constantly use rotten eggs the more time you spend on the wall, so you'll want to know where you're going and get there quickly.

With 750 giftboxes destroyed, you can play the Spin' n Win mini-game. There are three difficulties, and you have sixty seconds to swing from one end of the area to the other. If you get to the end, you don't win anything. This mini-game - and the other two you can unlock - are just for fun. If you fall at any point, it's back to the start. 

Octopus Climbing Device Blueprint 7 and the scissors

Octopus Climbing Device Blueprint 8 and the Heart of Stone

Octopus Climbing Device Blueprint 9

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 9 of 22

It didn't take long at all to get a ton of missions done in the junkyard. Next stop: Who Lake.

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Some of the pipes have little rods that you can swing on. If the rod isn't moving into the pipe, switch directions and then swing. This is how you link the pipes and conduct the gas down to Who-Bris' shack. Some of the pairs of pipes look like a bent big tubes of toothpaste sticking out of the ground with a shinny T-shaped next to it, and you'll have to shoot at the skinny ones with the Nitro Eggs to spin them into place. These pairs of pipes are also part of the gas conducting mission. Some of the pipes will also be in the shafts with the buttons that temporarily turn off the force fields.

In order to get that blueprint in the area with the rats, you'll have to shoot down the vent cover with a Nitro Egg. You can also push the big pipe section into the rest of the piping as part of the gas conducting mission. As for the platforms in that area that were being held up by cranes, you can shoot them down with the Rotten Egg Launcher to place them over the gaps, then lead the rats over to the pipe where you just found that blueprint piece with Max. When you bring all ten mice over to that pipe, you'll infest the Mayor's house and complete that mission.

By shooting what look like laser cannons at the steel double doors with the Slime Launcher, you can deactivate the nearby electrical trap and get the giftboxes. Also, you can destroy the giftboxes near the electrical gates with Nitro Eggs.

Apparently, by linking enough of the pipes, you'll get rid of the steam blocking your way to the blueprint piece. Beyond the blueprint piece is the last food and the last robot. The vent with the green arrow pointing downward towards it is where you need to place the parts of all ten destroyed robots in order to feed the computer.

You'll also find a pipe puzzle. Go up to the valve wheel and turn it off to keep the steam away from the lower-left lever. From there, pull the lower-left lever down. Pull the lower-right lever up, then pull the upper-right lever. Pull the lower-left lever back up, then pull the upper-right lever again. All that's left is to bring the pipe that was brought up back down, so pull the lower-left lever. Turn the valve switch so the steam is on, and the mission is done. 

When you complete enough missions, you'll unlock Who Lake, the fourth and final level of the game.

Pipe 1

Pipe 2

Pipe 3

Pipe 4

Pipe 5

Octopus Climbing Device Blueprint 5

Pipe 6

Pipe 7

Pipe 8

Pipe 9

Octopus Climbing Device Blueprint 6

Robot 10 (completes half of robot mission)

Food 10 (completes food mission)

Pipe 10 (completes pipe mission)

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 8 of 22

In this entry, we start our journey into the Whoville Dump. There's quite a bit to do and just as much to figure out, as you can see.

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In this video, we start exploring the Whoville Dump. Here, your missions are: stealing food from birds, feeding the computer with robot parts, infesting the Mayor's house with rats, conducting the Stinky Gas to Who-Bris' shack, shaving the dump guardian, short-circuiting the power plant, and squashing all the giftboxes. There are also a pair of scissors to collect for later.

The first thing you will notice are the red Nitro Eggs. These are more powerful than your rotten eggs, and you can carry up to five of them. These red ruby eggs will allow you to destroy the robot sentries that are circling around the pipes leading to the switches, as well as destroy the robots that are moving around for their parts.

Watch out for steam. The steam will damage you if it touches you, and it will come out of vents and pipes that are all over the place.

Birds will be surrounding the food items that you'll need to collect. If you see them, you'll need to shoot at them with the Rotten Egg Launcher to get them out of the way so you get the food. If they take the food, wait for them to come back down before shooting at them again; that will bring the food back so you can pick it up.

The robots with the green jewels on their chests - some of which will be moving around with boxes - can be destroyed for parts. You'll need to hit them with the Nitro Eggs to do this, and you'll want to do it from a distance, as they will move up to you and shock you if they see you.

The sphere-shaped sentry robots guard the pipes. Some of them will be covered, and you'll need to drop down them to find some giftboxes to pancake as well as a button to jump on. The buttons will turn off the force fields blocking the path to other parts of the junkyard, but only temporarily, and you'll really have to memorize where you need to go, memorize where you need to stand in order to get back aboveground with the Rocket Spring, then hoof it in order to get to the other end before the force field comes back. Memorizing exactly where you need to go is essential, as the game really only gives you just enough time to get past where the force field was. Getting out of the shaft is easy: you'll have to stand on the oil slick on the floor and use the Rocket Spring there to get out of the shaft.

The force fields shock you if you touch them, so you have to get rid of them with the switches in order to really move around in this level. Even worse, while you're down in the areas with the buttons, there will also be frayed wires with electricity coming out of them. These wires will shock you, and you'll want to avoid touching them as you get out of the shafts where the buttons area, as getting shocked will cost you valuable time.

There is a whole area full of rats. The rats will follow you if you're playing as Max in that area, and there are also wooden planks on cranes above the area, too. Hmmmmmm...

There are levers that activate a crusher in this level. The lever pulls the crusher up and also brings it down, and if you bring the nearby block over to where the crusher comes down, you can get a giftbox out of it.

There is a guy on top of one of the shaft entrances. To get rid of him, you'll need to shoot a Nitro Egg at the wrecking ball. The wrecking ball will swing by and knock the guy out of the dump.

If you die, you get sent back to the start of the current level. You have infinite lives, so don't worry about that.

There is a set of metal double doors, but at this point, I don't know what to do regarding it...yet.

Food 1

Robot 1

Robot 2

Robot 3

Food 2

Octopus Climbing Device Blueprint 1

Robot 4

Food 3

Robots 5 and 6, and Food 4

Food 5

Food 6

Food 7

Octopus Climbing Device Blueprint 2

Robot 7

Robots 8 and 9, Foods 8 and 9, and Octopus Climbing Device Blueprint 3

Octopus Climbing Device Blueprint 4

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 7 of 22

We've unlocked the third world in the game after only a handful of videos! We're really making some headway here!

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It's time to head back to the Whoforest, now that there's no more to do in Downtown Whoville (for now).

Now that we have the Rocket Spring, we can take the beehives to the roofs of the rest of the cabins and throw the beehives down in them. Just make sure the "Drop It In!" prompt in on screen before you press Triangle.

Once you throw beehives in all ten cabins, you can then walk in through the front door of each and every one of them. There will be giftboxes to pancake and blueprints to collect, but watch out for the bees! The blueprints for the Slime Shooter gadget will all be in the cabins, so if you miss any, go check the cabins again.

One of the cabins has a locked chest. We'll be able to open it eventually.

You can use the Rocket Spring to get on top of the snow cannon. Smash the giftboxes, then press Triangle at the hole at the top to drop the glue in and gum up the works.

At this point, we've done enough to unlock the Whoville Dump, the third level of the game.

The Slime Shooter, when unlocked, will let you shoot slime at anyone or anything. Hold the Circle Button to charge it up, and when the charge gauge is full, release the button to let loose a glob of slime. In Downtown Whoville, you can use it to cover up the horns playing the music and get the giftboxes near them more safely (assuming you haven't gotten them already), and you can shoot slime at the police officers to get their giftboxes and get them out of your way.

To get the giftbox at the top of the Christmas tree in the center of Downtown Whoville, you'll need to aim at it with the Binoculars and shoot it with the Rotten Egg Launcher to knock it down for pancaking.

Cabin 3

Cabin 4

Cabin 5

Cabin 6

Cabin 7

Cabin 8

Dropping the glue into the snow cannon

Cabin 9

Cabin 10 (how did I do this in one shot and complete the mission?)

Slime Shooter Blueprint 1

Slime Shooter Blueprint 2

Slime Shooter Blueprint 3

Slime Shooter Blueprint 4

Slime Shooter Blueprint 5

Slime Shooter Blueprints 6, 7 and 8

Slime Shooter Blueprint 9

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 6 of 22

In this video, we get all of the missions in Downtown Whoville complete. The giftboxes, however, will be a different matter.

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Now that City Hall is open, we might as well go in there.

The door at the bottom leads to a conference room. Press Triangle to open the doors here. On the walls, one of the file cabinets will be a little taller than the others, and you can pull them out by holding Triangle and using the D-Pad to get Binoculars blueprints. Congratulations, you've found the rest of the blueprints for the binoculars.

At the upper floor, you'll want to sneak around and stay behind the columns so that the security guards do not see you and kick you back to the entry room. Enter the rooms that you find to look for giftboxes and other important items. Behind a set of brown cabinets that you can push out of the way is a safe. Pull out the safe, then pancake it from above to get the hammer and chisel. You'll be needing these soon.

Across from where you find the hammer and chisel is the Mayor's statue, which is protected by security lasers. You can jump over them to get to the statue, but if you use your bad breath attack where the lasers are supposed to be, you can expose the lasers. Be careful as you not only get to the statue, but also pick up the Grinch Copter blueprint that is here.

When you get to the statue, get behind it and press Triangle at the button you find to deactivate the security system and turn off the lasers. Since you have the hammer and chisel, you can now stand at the front of the statue to vandalize it and complete the statue defacing mission. You're done in city hall, so you might as well leave.

The Rocket Spring will allow you to get a few giftboxes in slightly higher locations in Downtown Whoville, including some of the ones that are handing from above. For those, you can Rocket Spring and bounce on them to easily pancake them. You still won't be able to get the even higher ones easily.

Remember the orange building guarded by the policeman? That's the Countdown-to-Christmas Tower, and now that you have the Rocket Spring, you can leap up to the doorway above the lever and grab the handles to pull the door open and get to the next level. From here, you'll have to pull some levers in order to get some gears in position so that they open a door when they turn. When that happens, you can take the elevator to the next floor. B e ready to solve lever puzzles and smash the occasional giftbox.

For the first floor, pull the left lever up, the center lever up, and the right lever down. When you jump on the red button, the gears will be able to open up the second level.

For the second floor, pull the right lever down and the left lever down, then jump on the red button to lower the platform. Push the block in the room onto the platform, then pull the right lever back up to get the platform running when you jump on the button again.

For the third floor, push the block in the room towards the big gear that is sticking out, then jump on the block and push the gear with Triangle and the D-Pad. Pull the right lever down, then jump on the red button. This will move another gear into place. At this point, you can push the block onto the platform. Pull the center lever down, then pull the left lever up. After that, pull the lever near the elevator that is by itself down.

At the top floor, press Select to call Max and have him go through the hole in the door. Move to the hammer to grab it, then get the Grinch Copter Blueprint. There will be a picture above the blueprint; it will signify the order in which you need to hit the five bells in the previous room from left to right, and it is different each time you play. To hit a bell, you'll need to stand under the shadow of the bell and launch yourself into it with the Rocket Spring. The green lights above the next door will light up as you get the sequence right.

In the next room, pancake all the giftboxes and get the Grinch Copter blueprint, then use the hammer near the bell man to hit the bell man. This will cause the bell man to wake up and set the time to three days instead of thirty, and that will complete the Christmas timer mission.

Once you unlock the Binoculars, you can zoom in and out with Triangle and X, respectively, while in the first-person view.

Binoculars Blueprints 2, 3 and 4

Grinch Copter Blueprint 1

Grinch Copter Blueprint 2

Grinch Copter Blueprint 3 (and the hammer)

Grinch Copter Blueprint 4

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 5 of 22

In this entry, we finally have an idea of what to do next in Whoforest, then we head back downtown to take care of a few missions there.

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At the start of the video, I have to go up to the upper reaches of the other area and shoot the spinning target next to the cabin at the top of the big tree you can enter the underside of by going into first-person view and shooting the spinning target with the Rotten Egg Launcher. By doing that, an elevator will lower to the bottom of the tree, and you can get on the elevator and press Triangle to ride it to the top. This will take you to some giftboxes, the last cabin and the ninth and last blueprint for the Rocket Spring. Be sure to take the elevator back down, as you'll need to use the elevator later. 

With the Rocket Spring blueprints taken care of, you can head back to Mount Crumpit and build the Rocket Spring. To switch between gadgets, hold R1 and press Left and Right. The Rocket Spring, when used, allows you to jetpack yourself to higher areas. Hold Circle to charge it, then let go to rocket yourself upwards. It takes four rotten eggs for a full charge. 

With this out of the way, it's back to Whoville, as we have things that we can do now. Believe it or not, you can now shoot rotten eggs at the windows that open and close with the Rotten Egg Launcher. If there is a green cloud coming out of the window, that means you've already hit that window.

To advance the Countdown to Christmas clock, aim at it with the Rotten Egg Launcher in first-person view, then shoot a rotten egg at it. This will advance the clock to 8 PM and open the doors to city hall. 

There are some giftboxes that you can shoot down with the Rotten Egg Launcher, but they have to be on the surface of a roof in order to be destroyed.

Rocket Spring Blueprint 9

Window 1

Window 2

Window 3

Window 4

Window 5

Window 6

Window 7

Window 8

Windows 9 and 10 (mission complete)

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 4 of 22

In this video, we head to the Whoforest and get some things taken care of, but we end up at a loss when it comes to everything we can do.

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Let's get stuff done in Whoforest! Your missions are as follows: making ten Christmas trees droop, sabotaging the snow cannon with glue, putting ten beehives in ten cabins, sliming The Mayor's skis, replacing the ten candles on the cake with fireworks, and squashing all 750 gifts. You also have two items for this level: a bucket which I'm assuming holds the glue, and some sort of magnetic keycard.

If you jump onto the cabins and approach the chimneys, the game will tell you that the chimneys are, in fact, chimneys. If you shoot the beehive on the non-Christmas trees, you'll be able to knock a beehive down. You can then walk into it to grab it. You'll have fifteen seconds to figure out what to do with it, which is to take it to the chimney of a cabin and press Triangle to drop it in the chimney. When a beehive is thrown down the chimney, smoke will stop coming out of that chimney, so you can tell at a glance if you chucked a beehive into it.

If you fail to get to the chimney in time, or if you drop it away from a chimney, bees will come out of the beehive. They're going to hit you no matter what, so be ready to waggle the D-Pad left and right repeatedly until the bees leave you alone.

When you approach the Christmas trees, Whos in red coats with flamethrowers will suddenly show up to protect them. Hit them from a distance with the Rotten Egg Launcher, then move up to the tree and kill it with your bad breath. The tree will die, and the Who with the flamethrower will sob before disappearing.

You won't be able to climb up the ice walls until you get another gadget.

To get rid of the big brown creatures that come out of the holes in the ground, hit them with your bad breath. You'll not only get a giftbox from them, but you'll never see them again afterwards. If they are uncooperative, stun them with the Rotten Egg Launcher. Sometimes they'll be out in the open; other times they will appear when you approach their holes.

The guys who throw snowballs can be hit with the bad breath attack. This will cause him to fall into the snow and drop a giftbox. I didn't know this at the time (and I didn't know this until much later in the Let's Play), but you have to pancake them afterwards while they're feet up in the snow to get another giftbox to smash and get rid of them for good.

The branches are necessary to get to the upper level where some of the cabins are as well as where the snow cannon is. This is where it really becomes apparent how needlessly complex the swinging controls are. Once again, it's all in the feet.

Close to the snow cannon is an ice wall you can destroy with the Rotten Egg Launcher, and inside is the glue bucket. We won't be doing anything with this bucket of glue...yet.

There was actually a target at the top of the tree platform that I could hit with the Rocket Egg Launcher (the same tree that had those weird red markings when I was underneath it). I figure that out between this video and the next.

Cabin 1

Rocket Spring Blueprint 1 (it was right there in the opening cutscene, and I just now remember it here)

Christmas Tree 1

Rocket Spring Blueprint 2

Cabin 2

Christmas Tree 2

Christmas Tree 3

Rocket Spring Blueprint 3

Christmas Tree 4

Rocket Spring Blueprint 4

Christmas Tree 5

Christmas Tree 6

Christmas Tree 7 and Rocket Spring Blueprint 5

Rocket Spring Blueprint 6 and Christmas Tree 8

Rocket Spring Blueprint 7

Rocket Spring Blueprint 8 and Christmas Tree 9 (you can get up there without the Rocket Spring, you just gotta be solid on that jump to the ledge so you can grab it)

Christmas Tree 10 (mission completed...and it was right at the start, too!)

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 3 of 22

If you're wondering how I caused that glitch regarding the computer, it was because I wasn't standing in a neutral position when I pressed Triangle in front of the computer lever. I figured this out right after it happened, and this kept that glitch from rearing its ugly head again for the rest of the Let's Play.

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In order to don the Who Cloak, you must find a red phone booth, press Triangle to open the door, then go in and press Triangle again to switch between your normal Grinchy self and the Who Cloak. While in disguise, nobody will mess with you...not even the police officer near the post office. You won't be able to open the door to the Whoville post office and enter it without wearing the Who Cloak, so you're going to need it to do what we need to do here.

If you go straight forward from where you enter, you'll see Cindy Lou Who (at least, I believe that's her; she's never named). She will follow you around wondering who you are, but that's about it.

Instead, you need to run around the perimeter of the post office while avoiding the red spotlights of the security cameras. If you get caught by one, you'll be booted back to the entrance, but you'll be free to move around again and do whatever you want afterwards. Just wait for the lights to turn off as the security cameras move around before moving forwards.

As you circle the perimeter of the post office, you'll notice that different doors to different mailrooms have a different color light surrounding them. Keep the lights in mind for the doors that you want. 1 is purple, 2 is orange, 3 is cyan, 4 is yellow and 5 is gray. You'll need to enter and shuffle the mail in the first four mailrooms to unlock the fifth mailroom.

You'll also see air vents. The Grinch cannot enter these, but Max can, so press Select to switch to him and then move into the air vent. Before you do that though, you'll want The Grinch next to the door that you want to unlock. Once you have The Grinch in place, have Max enter the air vent. You'll then enter a maze Look for the number and color for the door that you want, then follow the color and enter the air vent exit that you see. The red button in the mailroom will open the nearby door, and you'll have ten seconds to get the Grinch into the mailroom. If you don't, then you'll have to switch back to The Grinch, switch back to Max - who will reappear next to The Grinch and not where you left him - and then go through the maze all over again and get back to where you were. Thankfully, if you have The Grinch in position and you have an idea of where you are going, this part is a snap. Once The Grinch is in the mailroom, smash the presents in the room, then go up to the cubby full of mail and press Triangle to shuffle the mail. This will complete mart of the "Shuffle the Mail" mission and you'll also keep the mailroom door open, which will make it easier to keep track of where you've been. You'll need to do this five times, one for each mailroom.

The flashing gray heart is a Heart of Stone gives you an extra hit point when collected. There are four of these in all, one in each world in the game.

If you press X as Max, Max will bark. It doesn't serve any purposes gameplay-wise.

After you mess with the first four room, Cindy Lou Who will call for her father, who will come out of Door 5 and leave it open. Inside will be a load of presents as well as the third blueprint for the Rotten Egg Launcher. Shuffle the mail once last time, and you'll see The Grinch scare the little girl on his way out of the power station in a brief cutscene. With all of the mail shuffled and another mission completed, the security system will be out of commission and you'll be free to move around without being sent back to the entrance via trap door. Speaking of the entrance, if you go back there, you'll find the fourth and final blueprint for the Rotten Egg Launcher on your way out.

Now that we've done enough stuff in Downtown Whoville, the Whoforest will be unlocked. The teleportation tube for this level will be a solid dark grey. While we could head back there at Mount Crumpit, we have blueprints to put together like a jigsaw puzzle in order to unlock our first gadget. Press Triangle at the lever in front of the computer to use the computer, then use L1 and R1 to switch to the gadget you want to unlock. Obviously, we want to unlock the Rotten Egg Launcher. Select it, and you'll be able to use the D-Pad to move the red cursor while picking blueprint pieces up with X. When you pick up a blueprint piece, the cursor will turn green. You can move it around with the D-Pad and place it elsewhere with X, and you can rotate it with Square. It wasn't until I started making these blog entries that the logo in the background of the blueprints looks like a "G," and you can use that to your advantage to see if you have everything rotated correctly. Also, the white box with the "G" logo in it should be in the lower-right hand corner with the "G" logo right-side up. If you can keep those two things in mind, you can easily get the blueprints back in order and unlock the gadgets.

The Rotten Egg Launcher lets you shoot rotten eggs at Whos and other things and beings. By holding L1, you can use Up and Down on the D-Pad to switch gadgets. With the Rotten Egg Launcher equipped, you can aim with the first-person view mode when you press R1, which will now show a target reticle in the center of the screen. Circle fires a rotten egg whether you are in first-person view or not.

If you go to the upper level above where the Gadget Computer is, you'll find a few doors that lead to mini-games. You can only open these if you've smashed enough gifts in the game. They serve no purpose other than to have a fun time outside of the main game. There is also a locked door with a keyhole, but it is locked from the inside and you won't be able to see what is behind the door until much later.

Back in Downtown Whoville, you can now fire rotten eggs at the kids who tried to hug you and throw snowballs at you earlier. Hitting them will cause them to drop giftboxes, which you can then smash. The guys who ran away from you will cower in fear if you look at them in first-person view mode with the Rotten Egg Launcher equipped, and you can also shoot them for giftboxes. You won't be able to do anything to the police officers...yet. As for the giftboxes that are airborne, you won't be able to do anything with them with the Rotten Egg Launcher. You're still going to have to wait to get those. The rotten eggs can also be used to break the walls made out of snow, which will uncover more giftboxes.

Beside some of the obvious reasons that you'll need Max for, Max can also be used to scout ahead and look around in certain areas without incident. Enemies will not mess with Max, and neither will any hazards. This is very useful if you want to explore without getting hurt.

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 2 of 22

Downtown Whoville is pretty small, but there's quite a bit to do.

First | Next | End

The first of the four teleportation tubes will be light and dark grey, and will take you to Downtown Whoville. Press Triangle when you're under the tube to enter the level. This is the first, and right now, only level that you can access for now until you can get some tasks done. 

Your missions for Downtown Whoville are shuffling the mail five times, smashing ten snowmen, painting ten posters of The Mayor, launching eggs into ten houses, advancing the countdown-to-Christmas clock, and squashing all 500 gifts. You also have four special items to find that you'll use in certain parts of the level.

If you need to return to Mount Crumpit, return back to where you started, stand underneath the teleportation tube and press Triangle.

Be on the lookout for the citizens of Whoville. The kids in the light green jackets will hug you if they grab you, and they will fill up the health meter. Waggle the D-Pad left and right to break free if they grab on, and stay away from them. To refill health, you'll have to smash giftboxes, which is one of the weirdest things about the game. This can make things a little harder later on. There will be other kids who will throw snowballs at you, and others still will just run away from you if you approach.

If you see any gifts, jump on or pancake them to break them. Some of them will have to be pancaked in order to be broken, especially if they are worth five or ten giftboxes. Different colors are worth different values, much like the gems in the Spyro series.

The rotten egg plants will give you ammo for your various gadgets. You can carry up to 200. Rotten egg plants will eventually re-grow, and depending on how grown it looks, you can get anywhere from one to three to five units of ammunition. Make it a habit to collect any you see to fill up your ammo, as you're going to need them later.

To destroy the snowmen, jump on them. You may have to pancake them to ensure accuracy.

You'll need the paint and the paint bucket to vandalize the posters of The Mayor.

The blue pieces of paper are blueprints. Collect them in order to unlock gadgets at the game's main hub in Mount Crumpit.

You can pancake the gifts underneath the music-playing from the side if your timing is right. There is another way to smash them, but we don't have it yet.

You can jump into ledges to grab them. Press Up on the D-Pad to pull yourself up. 

There is a tutorial on the poles. Jump into them, then hold Square to spin. Depending on where your feet are in front of you when you jump, you'll either do a high jump or a long jump. Your feet will have to be slightly lower than your body to do the long jump, and if they're slightly higher, you'll do the high jump. It can be hard to differentiate between the two, and it can be frustrating. If you need to turn around on a pole, hold Square and press Triangle while at the top of the pole to turn around.

The poles will be used to get to the two planks ahead, and there will be a guy jumping around. Pancake the opposite end of where the guy is to launch him into the stratosphere and get the paint and paint bucket. With this, you can vandalize the posters of The Mayor by standing in front of one and pressing Triangle.

There are gift boxes in the air that you won't be able to get to right now. You'll be able to destroy them eventually.

There are police officers, especially one near the post office. Some of them will be asleep at their posts, and you can hold Triangle and move to tiptoe past them without alerting them. The one near the post office gives you the hint of "If only you could not be recognized..." Remember that for later. If any of them see you, or if they are awakened, they will shoot you with an ice blast. You'll have to waggle the D-Pad left and forth to break out before you lose a ton of health.

You'll eventually find the front door for City Hall, where a ceremony will be held. You'll need to find a way to advance the clock at the top of the building to 8 PM to open up the doors.

If any hummingbirds approach you, use your bad breath to kill them.

You'll find the Who Cloak if you sneak into the Countdown-To-Christmas tower. You'll need this to get into the post office. To put on the Who Cloak, you'll need to find one of the phone boxes in town, walk into it and press Triangle to switch between your normal Grinchy self and your disguise.

Snowman 1

Binoculars Blueprint 1

Snowman 2

Snowman 3

Snowman 4

Mayor's Poster 1

Mayor's Poster 2

Snowman 5

Snowman 6

Snowman 7

Snowman 8 (and the sneaking tutorial)

Rotten Egg Launcher Blueprint 1 and Mayor's Poster 3 (I told you the swinging controls were ass.)

Rotten Egg Launcher Blueprint 1

Snowman 9

Mayor's Poster 4

Mayor's Poster 5

Mayor's Poster 6

Mayor's Poster 7

Mayor's Poster 8

Snowman 10 (mission is done)

Mayor's Poster 9

Mayor's Poster 10 (mission is done)

PrinceWatercress plays The Grinch (PS1) - Part 1 of 22

While the developers couldn't get Jim Carrey's voice talents, this is still an okay game...up to a point.

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Around the same time that the live-action Grinch movie starring Jim Carrey came out in 2000, there was a video game loosely based on the film. Much like in the film, The Grinch plans on stealing Christmas for Whoville, but as he looks through his blueprints to see what gadgets he should make, he falls off a pile of boxes and knocks his blueprints off. The blueprints fly out of the cave and into Wholand, and now The Grinch has to go down there and get all the blueprints back.

From here, you'll gain control of The Grinch at the top of Mt. Crumpit for the in-game tutorial.

If you go back to the cliff, you can get The Grinch to look into his telescope, but you won't be able to do much here.

The first thing you'll learn how to do is jump and pancake. Besides the obvious of using the D-Pad to move around, pressing X allows you to jump, and pressing X again while in mid-air allows you to perform a pancake attack that allows you to smash boxes and other things. It cannot be used to defeat enemies. By smashing the crates, you'll find a key to the nearby door in the last crate that you smash. Get the key, then run into the locked door to open it.

Sometimes, you can move things by pressing and holding Triangle while in front of them, and then pressing Up, Down, Left or Right on the D-Pad while holding Triangle. When you move the shell blocking the next room out of the way, you'll learn how to play as Max. To switch between The Grinch and Max, press Select. Move Max around with the D-Pad, and use Max to enter small holes that The Grinch cannot. Max can collect items, but cannot use them; if you find anything, you'll need to return to The Grinch and press Select so that The Grinch can get and use the item. Move Max through the hole in the wooden door to get the key, then return to The Grinch. You can then go through the next locked door.

To get past the breath analyzer, you'll need to breathe on it. To use your breath attack, press Square. Press Square in front of the breath analyzer to open the next door. You can also use the breath attack to reveal a few things as well as get rid of some annoying Whos.

Press Triangle in front of a lever to grab it. From there, the game will tell you where you can go with Up or Down at the bottom of the . Head down, and you'll reach The Grinch's computer as well as the level hub. The computer will be used to rebuild gadgets when you get all the blueprints for them, and the teleporters will take you to the four worlds of the game...assuming you've unlocked them. You'll only be able to play the first one, Downtown Whoville, at the start, and you'll have to do things in the levels to unlock more of them.

L2 and R2 allow you to rotate the camera. Pressing R1 will let you look around in first-person mode, and pressing it again will bring you back to the normal view in the direction you were last looking, which allows you to line yourself up with things. Double-tapping R1 allows you to quickly get the camera back behind The Grinch.

At the Pause screen, you can check out the missions that you can do for Downtown Whoville. Pages for other levels will unlock alongside the levels. You can also see all the gadgets that can be rebuilt and used, and you can also see the totals for all the collectibles that you have. You can also play around with the sound settings, save the game, and quit the game. 

PrinceWatercress plays London Adventure - The Longplay

...and now, the game, minus commentary. Enjoy!

Let's Play

For those not knowing what the British Council is, it is a British organization specializing in international cultural and educational opportunities while promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language around the world while also encouraging cultural, scientific, technological and educational cooperation with the United Kingdom.

You have been spending your holiday in London. You are returning home today and must catch the five o'clock flight from Heathrow Airport. Before you go to the airport, you want to buy some souvenirs for your friends at home. You have to find your way around London, visit the right shops and buy the presents you need.

You will be told where you are at what you can see at each place. You will then be asked what you want to do or say.

Choose what you want to do or say by using the arrow keys (to the top right of the keyboard) until your choice is shown at the bottom of the screen and then pressing Return. Thankfully, it's pretty easy to know what to pick if you have a grasp of the English language; nevertheless, I'll mention what you need to pick in this blog.

This is your shopping list: a tie, a policeman doll, a print, a statuette, a tea tray and perfume. You can get some useful information (including your shopping list) by pressing some of the red keys at the top of the keyboard. A reminder of these keys will appear at the top of the screen.

Remember your time is limited. You must not miss your plane. Good luck!

The game starts at 9 A.M. in Charing Cross, in front of the National Gallery. It is nine o'clock in the morning. You have a wallet with £5 in it, six traveler's cheques, your passport and your return plane ticket. You are outside the British Council office in Spring Gardens and you can see the large building on the other side of Trafalgar Square. To the right there is a kiosk and the entrance to a Tube station.

F0 shows the time. Believe it or not, while time passes as you do things in the game, time will still pass even if you're not doing anything and leaving the game idle, so keep that in mind. F1 shows your inventory, which shows what you are currently carrying. F2 shows the shopping list, which we've seen earlier. F3 shows the guidebook, assuming you've bought it. F4 shows the Tube Map, assuming you've bought it.

Walk to the kiosk. Here, buy the carrier bag. You'll need to increase the amount of things you can carry as well as make it so you can carry all of the souvenirs that you are buying. If you want, you can buy the Tube Map and the Guidebook. The Tube Map will show the routes to all the places you need to go, with different colors for different lines, and the Guidebook will tell you where you can buy all the souvenirs. (Not surprisingly,  The carrier bag are 5p, 50p and £2, respectively. 

• "I'd like this carrier bag, please."
• "I'd like this Tube map, please."
• "I'd like this guidebook, please."

From here, you can either make your own hand-drawn map or take a picture of the map, or you can copy down what is in the guidebook or take a picture of the screen stating what is in it. Since I can do that, I then restart the game in the Let's Play video of the game (as opposed to the longplay).

From here, you can buy the policeman doll for £2.50. You can buy the policeman doll at the kiosk outside any large building, but I just do it here for the sake of it.

• "I'd like this policeman doll, please."

To get more money, you'll need to find the bank, and to find the bank, you'll need to stop a passer-by and ask them where you can change traveler's cheques. You'll get some directions and head to the bank automatically, but the bank will only be open between 9:30 and 15:30. 

The Tube is the London subway system, and you can use it to go anywhere in the city. When you go there, always head to the ticket station first and buy a ticket. Of course, it helps to know where you're going and where to buy a ticket for, and you can ask how to get somewhere. You can then pick which Tube station to stop at and then ask how to get there. For Knightsbridge, for example, you take the Jubilee line and change at Green Park.

• "Could you tell me how I get to (insert Tube station name here)?"

From here, you can buy a ticket to the Tube station you want to go to. From here, you can go down the tunnel marked "Jubilee Line," and you'll then wait on the northbound platform until the train arrives and the doors open.

• (Insert Tube station name here), please."

Get on the train, and get out when the train arrives at Green Park station. This part is timed, and if you wait too long, the train moves to the next stop, much like in real life. From here, go up the escalator, and you'll be back outside.

From here, I go to the bank like I tried to do earlier. Once at the bank, go up to the counter marked "Foreign Business." When changing traveler's cheques, change one or two at a time. If you change too many at once, you'll lose more money out of them from fees, so just change one or two - $20 or $40 worth of cheques - every time you need more money.

• "I'd like to change some traveler's cheques, please."

After getting my money, you can stop a taxi. Ask the driver to take you to Harrods.

• "Harrods, please."

The taxi ride can either become pleasant and take you there, or you can get stuck in traffic. Sometimes, you may end up back where you started, and you'll have to spend more money to call another taxi and try to get to Harrod's again. Thankfully, the fare is not all that expensive. You can also use the Tube to get to Harrod's as well. 

Once you make it to Harrods, you can then walk to it after you pay the fare and step out of the taxi outside of a large building. Enter the large building to enter Harrods. Once inside, approach an assistant. You'll need to do this to politely buy what you need. The perfume is £15, the tie is £8, and the tea tray is £4.

• "I'd like this perfume, please."
• "I'd like this tie, please."
• "I'd like this tea tray please."

From here, leave Harrods, stop another passer-by to go to the bank, and change two traveler's cheques - $40 - worth of money. At this point, you should know what to do.

The only things you'll need left are the print and the statuette. The statuette can be purchased at the British Museum near Goodge Street. Head to the tube, and ask how to get to Goodge Street. You'll have to take the eastbound line and change at Leicester Square. From here, buy a ticket for Goodge Street, then go down the tunnel marked "Eastbound." 

• "Could you tell me how to get to Goodge Street?"

Enter the train, then stay on until the train stops at Leicester Square. When it does, get out. From here, enter the tunnel marked "Northern Line" and go down the tunnel maeked "Northbound." Get on the train, then get out when you reach Goodge Street. Go up the escalator, then enter the large building to enter the British Museum. Approach the assistant, and politely ask for a statuette, worth £8.

• "I'd like this statuette, please."

Leave the building, then go back to the Tube and head to the ticket office to buy a ticket to Charing Cross.

• "Charing Cross, please."

Enter the tunnel marked "Southbound," then get on the train when it arrives. Get off the train when it arrives at Charing Cross, then go up the escalator and enter the large building. You'll be in the National Gallery. Approach an assistant and politely ask to buy a print for £2.50. 

• "I'd like this print, please."

You'll now have everything on your shopping list, so leave the building and take the Tube. Go to the ticket office and politely ask for a ticket for Heathrow Central, which will take you to Heathrow Airport and end the game. 

• "Heathrow Central, please."

You can ask the ticket office attendant how to get there, but you'll eventually find out - either through them or the tube map - that you'll have to do it the same way I'm doing it here. Get on the train, and stop at Green Park, then go down the tunnel marked "Piccadilly Line" and go down the "Westbound" tunnel. Get on the train, and get out when you see the "All change, please." message. You'll be at Heathrow Central station when it happens, and when you get out, you'll reach the airport and end the game, and you'll have done it with all the souvenirs as well as plenty of time and money to spare. You just beat London Adventure!

It's a fine text adventure game, and it's a heck of a way to find all the cool spots in London. While all the action is in the dialogue prompts, they get the job done, and the game behaves like it should. My only complain is that the game goes the same way every time and that the shopping list is not randomized, so that's quite a few places in the game that are left completely unexplored. Other than that, it's still a fun game and one to recommend.

The Guidebook

Foyles: The largest bookshop in the world. Nearest tube - Tottenham Court Road.

Hamley's: A large toy shop in Regent St. Nearest tube - Piccadilly Circus.

Harrods: A high quality department store. Nearest tube - Knightsbridge.

HMV Shop: Sells records and cassettes of music to suit all tastes. Nearest tube - Oxford Circus.

Selfridges: A general department store in Oxford Street. Nearest tube - Marble Arch.

British Museum: Contains antiquities of all kinds. Nearest tube - Goodge St.

National Gallery: Houses a fine selection of European paintings. Nearest tube - Charing Cross.

PrinceWatercress plays London Adventure

Compared to some of the other BBC Micro games that I've played, this one is a little more involved despite still being a text-adventure style game. It can be, however, quite fun.

Longplay

For those not knowing what the British Council is, it is a British organization specializing in international cultural and educational opportunities while promoting a wider knowledge of the United Kingdom and the English language around the world while also encouraging cultural, scientific, technological and educational cooperation with the United Kingdom.

You have been spending your holiday in London. You are returning home today and must catch the five o'clock flight from Heathrow Airport. Before you go to the airport, you want to buy some souvenirs for your friends at home. You have to find your way around London, visit the right shops and buy the presents you need.

You will be told where you are at what you can see at each place. You will then be asked what you want to do or say.

Choose what you want to do or say by using the arrow keys (to the top right of the keyboard) until your choice is shown at the bottom of the screen and then pressing Return. Thankfully, it's pretty easy to know what to pick if you have a grasp of the English language; nevertheless, I'll mention what you need to pick in this blog.

This is your shopping list: a tie, a policeman doll, a print, a statuette, a tea tray and perfume. You can get some useful information (including your shopping list) by pressing some of the red keys at the top of the keyboard. A reminder of these keys will appear at the top of the screen.

Remember your time is limited. You must not miss your plane. Good luck!

The game starts at 9 A.M. in Charing Cross, in front of the National Gallery. It is nine o'clock in the morning. You have a wallet with £5 in it, six traveler's cheques, your passport and your return plane ticket. You are outside the British Council office in Spring Gardens and you can see the large building on the other side of Trafalgar Square. To the right there is a kiosk and the entrance to a Tube station.

F0 shows the time. Believe it or not, while time passes as you do things in the game, time will still pass even if you're not doing anything and leaving the game idle, so keep that in mind. F1 shows your inventory, which shows what you are currently carrying. F2 shows the shopping list, which we've seen earlier. F3 shows the guidebook, assuming you've bought it. F4 shows the Tube Map, assuming you've bought it.

Walk to the kiosk. Here, buy the carrier bag. You'll need to increase the amount of things you can carry as well as make it so you can carry all of the souvenirs that you are buying. If you want, you can buy the Tube Map and the Guidebook. The Tube Map will show the routes to all the places you need to go, with different colors for different lines, and the Guidebook will tell you where you can buy all the souvenirs. (Not surprisingly,  The carrier bag are 5p, 50p and £2, respectively. 

• "I'd like this carrier bag, please."
• "I'd like this Tube map, please."
• "I'd like this guidebook, please."

From here, you can either make your own hand-drawn map or take a picture of the map, or you can copy down what is in the guidebook or take a picture of the screen stating what is in it. Since I can do that, I then restart the game in the Let's Play video of the game (as opposed to the longplay).

From here, you can buy the policeman doll for £2.50. You can buy the policeman doll at the kiosk outside any large building, but I just do it here for the sake of it.

• "I'd like this policeman doll, please."

To get more money, you'll need to find the bank, and to find the bank, you'll need to stop a passer-by and ask them where you can change traveler's cheques. You'll get some directions and head to the bank automatically, but the bank will only be open between 9:30 and 15:30. 

The Tube is the London subway system, and you can use it to go anywhere in the city. When you go there, always head to the ticket station first and buy a ticket. Of course, it helps to know where you're going and where to buy a ticket for, and you can ask how to get somewhere. You can then pick which Tube station to stop at and then ask how to get there. For Knightsbridge, for example, you take the Jubilee line and change at Green Park.

• "Could you tell me how I get to (insert Tube station name here)?"

From here, you can buy a ticket to the Tube station you want to go to. From here, you can go down the tunnel marked "Jubilee Line," and you'll then wait on the northbound platform until the train arrives and the doors open.

• (Insert Tube station name here), please."

Get on the train, and get out when the train arrives at Green Park station. This part is timed, and if you wait too long, the train moves to the next stop, much like in real life. From here, go up the escalator, and you'll be back outside.

From here, I go to the bank like I tried to do earlier. Once at the bank, go up to the counter marked "Foreign Business." When changing traveler's cheques, change one or two at a time. If you change too many at once, you'll lose more money out of them from fees, so just change one or two - $20 or $40 worth of cheques - every time you need more money.

• "I'd like to change some traveler's cheques, please."

After getting my money, you can stop a taxi. Ask the driver to take you to Harrods.

• "Harrods, please."

The taxi ride can either become pleasant and take you there, or you can get stuck in traffic. Sometimes, you may end up back where you started, and you'll have to spend more money to call another taxi and try to get to Harrod's again. Thankfully, the fare is not all that expensive. You can also use the Tube to get to Harrod's as well. 

Once you make it to Harrods, you can then walk to it after you pay the fare and step out of the taxi outside of a large building. Enter the large building to enter Harrods. Once inside, approach an assistant. You'll need to do this to politely buy what you need. The perfume is £15, the tie is £8, and the tea tray is £4.

• "I'd like this perfume, please."
• "I'd like this tie, please."
• "I'd like this tea tray please."

From here, leave Harrods, stop another passer-by to go to the bank, and change two traveler's cheques - $40 - worth of money. At this point, you should know what to do.

The only things you'll need left are the print and the statuette. The statuette can be purchased at the British Museum near Goodge Street. Head to the tube, and ask how to get to Goodge Street. You'll have to take the eastbound line and change at Leicester Square. From here, buy a ticket for Goodge Street, then go down the tunnel marked "Eastbound." 

• "Could you tell me how to get to Goodge Street?"

Enter the train, then stay on until the train stops at Leicester Square. When it does, get out. From here, enter the tunnel marked "Northern Line" and go down the tunnel maeked "Northbound." Get on the train, then get out when you reach Goodge Street. Go up the escalator, then enter the large building to enter the British Museum. Approach the assistant, and politely ask for a statuette, worth £8.

• "I'd like this statuette, please."

Leave the building, then go back to the Tube and head to the ticket office to buy a ticket to Charing Cross.

• "Charing Cross, please."

Enter the tunnel marked "Southbound," then get on the train when it arrives. Get off the train when it arrives at Charing Cross, then go up the escalator and enter the large building. You'll be in the National Gallery. Approach an assistant and politely ask to buy a print for £2.50. 

• "I'd like this print, please."

You'll now have everything on your shopping list, so leave the building and take the Tube. Go to the ticket office and politely ask for a ticket for Heathrow Central, which will take you to Heathrow Airport and end the game. 

• "Heathrow Central, please."

You can ask the ticket office attendant how to get there, but you'll eventually find out - either through them or the tube map - that you'll have to do it the same way I'm doing it here. Get on the train, and stop at Green Park, then go down the tunnel marked "Piccadilly Line" and go down the "Westbound" tunnel. Get on the train, and get out when you see the "All change, please." message. You'll be at Heathrow Central station when it happens, and when you get out, you'll reach the airport and end the game, and you'll have done it with all the souvenirs as well as plenty of time and money to spare. You just beat London Adventure!

It's a fine text adventure game, and it's a heck of a way to find all the cool spots in London. While all the action is in the dialogue prompts, they get the job done, and the game behaves like it should. My only complain is that the game goes the same way every time and that the shopping list is not randomized, so that's quite a few places in the game that are left completely unexplored. Other than that, it's still a fun game and one to recommend.

The Guidebook

Foyles: The largest bookshop in the world. Nearest tube - Tottenham Court Road.

Hamley's: A large toy shop in Regent St. Nearest tube - Piccadilly Circus.

Harrods: A high quality department store. Nearest tube - Knightsbridge.

HMV Shop: Sells records and cassettes of music to suit all tastes. Nearest tube - Oxford Circus.

Selfridges: A general department store in Oxford Street. Nearest tube - Marble Arch.

British Museum: Contains antiquities of all kinds. Nearest tube - Goodge St.

National Gallery: Houses a fine selection of European paintings. Nearest tube - Charing Cross.