C64 The Dolphin’s Rune
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The Dolphin’s Rune game data
Commodore 64 game name: The Dolphin’s Rune | Release date:
1985 |
Publisher: Mindscape |
Game media type: d64 |
Language: en
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About Commodore 64 The Dolphin’s Rune
The Dolphin’s Rune: A Poetic Odyssey is probably unlike any computer program you’ve ever experienced. Like a complex jigsaw puzzle, it will provide days—perhaps weeks or months—of challenge. Your goal: to survive the ocean’s perils to make nine trips to the seabed. Each successful trip offers one more encrypted stanza of a poem, a poem that when properly deciphered is actually a complex riddle embedded with clues to a secret location somewhere on Earth. Once you ve unlocked the ninth stanza, one of three additional stanzas is revealed. Only one of these extra stanzas provides more clues; the other two are “red herrings”—ocean creatures designed to obscure your understanding and confuse your intellect.
The Dolphin’s Rune combines joystick action with intense intellectual challenge; you must be adroit, persistent, and mentally astute to succeed. You, as the dolphin, must survive the dangers of sharks and fishing nets. Even more difficult, you must master the dolphin skill of swimming through tumultuous color currents. Once you demonstrate your ability to negotiate the ocean environment, the sea becomes alive with dolphin sounds. You will be led to seabeds to search for clues that release dolphin hieroglyphs, fragments of an epic poem composed in a runic alphabet, that contain the key to the secret of The Dolphin’s Rune.
Mindscape and the Bank Street College of Education take great pride in presenting The Dolphin’s Rune. This program, with its mythic aura, its challenge, and its beauty, represents a new dimension of player-computer interaction: as you join the dolphin on its undersea exploration, its journey becomes your own.
Download Original Game Manual: The Dolphin’s Rune Manual
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The Dolphin’s Rune C64 keyboard mapping
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C64 emulator joystick - keyboard mappings| DIRECTION | JOYSTICK 1 | JOYSTICK 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LEFT | A | CURSOR LEFT |
| RIGHT | D | CURSOR RIGHT |
| UP | W | CURSOR UP |
| DOWN | S | CURSOR DOWN |
| FIRE | LEFT / RIGHT CTRL | LEFT / RIGHT SHIFT |