The Young Ones/Gameplay

Controls

 * A, Z, ,, and .: Use these keys to direct the menu highlighter up, down, left and right; you must also use Space to confirm your selections, but if you have a Cursor or Kempston joystick connected to the console, you can use it (and its button) instead after pressing 6 or 7 on the start screen to select their control (you can also press 5 on this screen to switch back to keyboard control, but after you start up the game, you cannot).

Mike, Vyvyan, Neil and Rick
These four students of the fictitious "Scumbag College" are the protagonists for this game; due to technical limitations, they are monocoloured for the ZX and CPC versions. As mentioned on the main page, you must choose which one of the four you want to control, by pressing 1, 2, 3, or 4 on the start screen (you can also push 5 for keyboard control, 6 for Cursor joystick control if connected and 7 for Kempston joystick control if connected) - and once you have pressed 0 to begin the game your chosen student will appear in the top half of the screen below the menu (the bottom half of the screen primarily displays what the other students are doing, but if one or more of them are in the same room as your chosen one, they will appear in the top half of it as well). All four students are trying to collect their belongings so they can leave their house before their landlord, Jerzei Balowski, comes to collect the rent; each student has their own belongings to locate and some of them can simply be picked up by selecting the appropriate command from the menu, but they will have to solve puzzles to get to some other ones. Once your chosen student has collected all his respective belongings he has to put them in a suitcase (Mike), bin-liner (Vyvyan), wheelbarrow (Neil) or backpack (Rick) - and once he has done so, he is free to move out of the house.