Murder on the Mississippi

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The famous detective Sir Charles Foxworth is taking a holiday on the Mississippi with his servant Regis on the Delta Princess. He's just taking a stroll around the upper deck of the ship when he discovers an open cabin door. Behind it: a dead man. As it turns out, the body of Raleigh Cartwright III. Sir Charles has three days to find the murderer, because then, the ship will reach New Orleans, giving the culprit a safe chance to escape.

The joystick controls the player's sprite to move into the respective direction, and pressing the button opens a menu with appropriate commands for the current situation. Walk around, Inspect an item, or examine evidence.

You will meet some characters who also happen to be suspects. Use these encounters as a fact-finding session. Take notes on what he or she has said. Share these notes with other passengers and crew members. But your first job is to find the body. Until you do, any information you gather will be of little value. Once you find the body, the other passengers will prove to be much more talkative.

Collect as many notes and evidence as you can to solve the mystery. Once you think that you have it solved, make an accusation by going to the character that you want to accuse and by using the joystick, point to Talk to [character's name], and press the joystick button. Then point to Accuse [character's name] and press the joystick button. Depending on the amount of evidence collected, you will know if your hunch was right or wrong.

Murder on the Mississippi has four possible endings with many variations on each one. Don't let the Delta Princess arrive to New Orleans before you solve the mystery, or the murderer will get away.

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Alternate Titles

• "ミシシッピー殺人事件" -- Japanese spelling
• "Murder on the Mississippi: The Adventures of Sir Charles Foxworth" -- Tag-lined title
• "Mississippi Satsujin Jiken" -- Japanese title

Part of the Following Groups

• Games with original fan translations into English
• Setting: Belle Époque
• Setting: Ship / Boat

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Critic Reviews

Zzap!	Commodore 64	Aug, 1986	89 out of 100	89
Happy Computer	Commodore 64	1986	88 out of 100	88
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Commodore 64	Jun, 1986	8.6 out of 10	86
The Good Old Days (Staff Reviews only)	Commodore 64	Dec 18, 2004	5 out of 6	83
Commodore User	Commodore 64	Jul, 1986	8 out of 10	80
Computer Gamer	Commodore 64	Jul, 1986	14 out of 20	70
Adventure Corner	Commodore 64	Sep 15, 2010		50
All Game Guide	Commodore 64	1998		50

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Trivia

The German Version

In 1986 then video game journalist Boris Schneider undertook one of the first documented fan translation efforts:

Over the course of one weekend (!) he single-handedly cracked and translated the C64 version of Murder on the Mississippi into German by using a simple hex editor and a self-written disk editor. He then sent "his" translated version of the game to Activision, which they officially released in Germany.

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