Out of This World "features"

[johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)]

Well, I finally finished "Out Of This World," and I am truly impressed.  It'd
be nice if it were longer, but there are enough challenging obstacles in it to
make it last awhile and make it fun to play again.  In the course of playing
it, though, I think I ran into a couple of programming bugs.

<Fair warning:  I'll try to avoid spoilers, but stop here if you're a purist.>

The first one happens every time, but doesn't significantly affect game play.
There are two levels, one above the other, on which you can cross the waterfall.
However, if you've done everything that you're supposed to in the caverns, the
first time you cross on the LOWER level you mysteriously wind up on the next
screen on the other side of the UPPER level, with your buddy crawling below you.
If you go back the way you came, you find yourself on the upper level instead
of the lower level, and have to go all the way back to the stairs and cross
again to get to the room with the chandeliers.

The second one happens occasionally, and requires a restart.  Near the end,
after the guard catches you as you are falling off the building and kicks you
into the next room, when the guard walks into the room, you are no longer there!
He and your buddy duke it out and there's nothing you can do.  If you hit 'C'
and re-enter the save code (or any other save code, I think) the scene you
arrive at is messed up (e.g. there are no, uh, babes at the pool).  This only
happened occasionally to me, when I was dying repeatedly in that room.

Another curiosity is the four or so variously-colored dots in the upper left
corner of every screen.  Has anyone figured out their significance yet?

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