Free cab ride: When you use the cabs in, you will always find yourself loosing
quarters. However, if you offer them $20 they will not charge.
Strategy
Note: During the game you make little use of the keyboard, except to type in
the addresses to let the Cab Driver know where you want to go. You must then
use the available commands displayed on the screen. The exact use of these
commands is not described in this solution as their actions will be obvious,
and full details are provided in the documentation accompanying the software.
Examine each room carefully during the game, as well as the objects scattered
around them.
THE SOLUTION
You begin your adventure in the Bathroom. It seems that you have been drugged.
You don't remember who you are. Take the overcoat and examine the contents of
the pockets. You will find some small change, a lighter with the initials J.S.,
some cigarettes, a handkerchief with the same initials, some sunglasses and a
wallet with a key, plastic card and a 20 dollar bill. Take the .38 revolver
armed with six bullets, and open the door. Look at the mirror.....where have
you seen that face before?!!
Leave the room.......you're in the Hallway. Directly to your LEFT is the
Ladies' Bathroom. Enter this room (while preparing a good explanation should
you ever get caught in there!). In the bathroom and to your LEFT, you notice an
expensive pearl earring; take it if you feel so inclined, but it is not
essential to your quest. Leave the room and in the Hallway, head for the Bar in
front of you and climb the stairs to the second floor. If you examine the
pictures on the wall, you'll see yourself in some of them! Enter the office.
Open the drawer. Inside, you'll find a bill with an address - 934 West Sherman.
Take the bill if you wish and open the door to your Left with the key from the
wallet. In the Office, you'll find a corpse; Search the body and take the keys
to the Mercedes you saw before, parked in the street. Open the desk and take
the pen and key marked "Front". Leave the room by going out through
the window behind the corpse and to the fire escape. Head for the third floor.
Enter that strange room through the window ......Hmmmmmmmmmm....... not the
most reassuring place in the world! Carefully examine the trash can. You'll
find a syringe. Take it. On the window ledge, you'll find three capsules;
Examine those also. It seems it was here that they tied you up and drugged you.
Take the elevator to visit the rest of the building. Inside the elevator, press
the third button from the top, and you end up in the Casino. Insert coins into
the machine until you win a jackpot. You will indeed require a lot of change
for the cabs. Take the elevator again and press the basement button. You now
end up in the sewers! Before descending into the sewers, SAVE YOUR GAME because
you don't stand a chance of defending yourself against the alligator that roams
down there and which appears from time to time! Head for the bottom of the
sewer and examine the whirlpool that seems to remind you of something.
Now, head for the exit but before leaving, SAVE YOUR GAME again because if you
go out in the backyard alley, you risk meeting the big bad guy!!! Get to the
Mercedes down the street and unlock the door with the key that you found on the
cadaver earlier. Enter the car and open the glove compartment. You will find a
photo there (I hope it's not a picture of your wife!!), a car registration form
in the name of Joey Siegel (do the initials J.S. ring a bell?!) and the address
1212 West End St. If you feel so inclined, try starting the car (Ah! the old
car bomb trick! I hope you had saved your game!!). Get out of the car and go to
your RIGHT. You should meet the prostitute whom you promptly punch! Open her
purse and go through its contents. You find another 20 dollar bill and a
revolver which could become useful if you have the intention of shooting
non-stop throughout the game.
As for the 20 dollar bill, take it if you can find a way to make change for it,
otherwise it's useless. And now, go to the LEFT to the newspaper stand, examine
the headlnes and the date. This must be 1941!! Buy the paper and the merchant
supplies a few important details. Go to the LEFT where you might meet the
mugger. If you do, strike him, but take note of this: You can meet and strike
the mugger only 4 TIMES during the whole adventure, so try to avoid him as
often as possible by SAVING YOUR GAME regularly. You now face the weapons
dealer shop. You may also meet a beggar who offers you some information for 20
dollars. As you won't need the money for the rest of the adventure, you may
give it to him, but you could also ignore him.
You could also enter the store and purchase the "special of the day"
if you feel like it!! Always to your LEFT, you're now in front of a taxicab. Go
to it and ask the driver to get you to 1212 West End Street, the address you
found in the Mercedes. The ride costs you 75.......pay and get out of the cab.
Enter the building. In front of you is a private entrance. Take the plastic
card from your wallet to use the elevator. At the top floor, examine the
penthouse and on the fireplace is a photo and another address (520 S. Kedzie).
Leave the building, enter the waiting taxi and go to that address. You will now
be in front of a house, the door to which you are unable to open. Shoot the
lock off with your pistol and enter the house.
On the table you find a paper on which is written the number combination:
33-24-36 (a pretty good number for a safe, eh?!). You also find another
expensive pearl earring. Now, all that's left for you to do is to find the
woman who might fit between them! Open the desk drawer, take the diary and the
key. It is now time to head for 934 West Sherman. Enter the building and head
up the stairs to the office of Dr.Brody. Open the door with the key found at
520 S. Kedzie. In the office, shoot a bullet at the filing cabinet lock and
you'll find various files in it. First, read the Siegel file to discover the
Diethanol Thimene antidote called Bisodumitis. Read the other files too, to
gain more interesting facts.
Examine the contents of the medicine cabinet and take the Bisodumitis (click on
the bottle) and place the product into the syringe. Inject yourself with the
contents of the syringe. The drug goes to work quickly and you begin to
remember. Take the Sodium Pentathol capsule from the cabinet; it will come in
handy in a few moments. Get out of the office and go to the second floor in
front of Dr. Ace Harding's office door. Unlock the door with the same key as
for the other Doctor's office. Fire a bullet at the shadow behind the door and
enter the office. Open the file cabinet and read the contents of the files.
Open the desk drawers and your memory comes back gradually (it will come back
with more regularity from now on). You can always take bullets for the .38 if
you like. And now, you must search for a new destination.
Examine the map found in the Mercedes. The following address is indicated: 1060
South Peoria Street, which is actually Joe's Bar, the place you initially
started from! Time for another little visit. Unfortunately, the taxi doesn't go
that far and you must walk part of the way. You risk encountering the mugger,
so be careful. Walk to the bar on the RIGHT hand side. (Enter the bar through
the sewer if you like, but it's much easier to use the front door since you
found the key to it earlier). Once you get into the building, go to the second
floor office and open up the safe since you now have the combination. Inside
the safe are a small box and a file folder. Take the key from the box and read
the file.
Leave the office and head down he street towards the Mercedes. Open the trunk
with the key found in the safe. You find there a lovely (Hum!!) looking woman,
tied up and gagged. Remove the bind with a mouse click. Inject her with a dose
of Sodium Pentathol and she blurts out the address: 626 Auburn Road. Take a cab
and go there. In front of the house, open the mailbox and take the ransom note
found there. Head for the house and knock on the door with the knocker. A
butler answers but refuses to let you in! Punch him down too!! He falls
unconscious. Climb to the first floor and in the first bedroom you discover a
woman sleeping. Open the drawer and grab the notepad.
Rub the pencil on the notepad and you can now read the message writen on it.
How about that for informative clues! Go to the other room and there, a man is
stacking Z's!! Take the attache case, open the drawer and take the letter left
there. You can eat the chocolates if you wish and the same thing goes for the
bologna sausage down in the kitchen too!! Leave the building and head for 1060
South Peoria. You now have all the elements you need to go to the Police
Station. But first you must get rid of the gun. (Notice that from now on, the
mugger may appear at any moment, so SAVE YOUR GAME as often as possible). A
good place to rid yourself of the weapon is in the whirlpool inside the sewer.
Go through the backyard alley to avoid meeting the alligator. Throw the gun
down there. Now head for the Police Station and with the evidence you have -
the notepad, diary and letter - you have the solution to the enigma.
Please
select the first letter of the game's title below. If the word
"The" appears at the start of a title, ignore it and search for
the second word in the title:
