Altered Destiny

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Description

One fine day P. J. Barrett, an ordinary human being from the planet Earth, goes to a repair shop to fix his TV set. When he comes back for it, he accidentally picks up a wrong one. No big deal? Quite on the contrary. When the unsuspecting Mr. Barrett returns home and turns the TV on, he is sucked into a portal! One moment later he finds himself on the strange planet of Daltere. Naturally, this planet needs a savior: the evil alien Helmar has stolen an artifact known as the Jewel of Light, thus endangering the entire galaxy. Now our unlikely hero has to overcome various obstacles and to save the world.

Altered Destiny is a puzzle-solving adventure game. The interface is very similar to the one used in Les Manley games by the same company. The navigation can be done with the mouse (point-and-click), but the game still requires text input to issue commands to the hero and to interact with the world.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Game Engine: Adventure Programming Engine
• Games with code-wheel copy protection

User Reviews

Death by natural selection?	DOS	jossiejojo (41)
Excellent old graphic adventure.	DOS	gametrader (233)

Critic Reviews

Amiga Power	Amiga	Nov, 1991	73 out of 100	73
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	DOS	Dec, 1990	8.4 out of 12	70
Power Play	DOS	Feb, 1991	67 out of 100	67
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Nov, 1991	62 out of 100	62
Techtite	DOS	2000		60
All Game Guide	DOS	1998		60
Amiga Format	Amiga	Nov, 1991	54 out of 100	54
The Good Old Days (Staff Reviews only)	Amiga	May 12, 2018	3 out of 6	50
Datormagazin	Amiga	Nov 07, 1991	49 out of 100	49
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	DOS	Dec, 1990	Unscored	Unscored

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Trivia

Credits

In the credits, Michael Berlyn gives special thanks to Ennio the Legend. Ennio the Legend is one of the main characters in Tass Times in Tonetown, another game Berlyn designed.

References

When the player types look rock or look stone, he will receive an ironic reply from the game: "A rock is a rock is a rock".

Obviously this is a reference to the sentence by poetess Gertrude Stein: "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose".

Sound

The sound code is extremely finicky - unless one can find the right combination of free RAM, video mode, and sound device, it usually plays through the PC speaker. Adlib and CGA usually works, CMS music seems to be more difficult.

Information also contributed by Boston Low.

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• IGCD Internet Game Cars Database (Game page on IGCD, a database that tries to archive vehicles found in video games.)