Thunderbirds (1988)/Mission 3

Once the program has been loaded into the console, you have to press either: 1 to select keyboard control, 2 for Interface 2 joystick control, 3 for Kempston joystick control, or 0 to play the first mission; you can also press M to turn the music (which, as in the first Thunderbirds game, is a remix of the show's theme song by Barry Gray, 1908-1984) off and on. If you press 1, 2, or 3, the text "YOU SELECTED KEYS Z, X, O, K/INTERFACE 2/KEMPSTON. IS THIS OK Y/N?" shall appear on the screen - and if you press Y the game will proceed to the password screen, but if you press N it shall return to the previous screen. Assuming you pressed Y the text "PASSWORD FOR ABOVE MISSION?" shall appear on the screen, and when you type in ALOYSIUS, the text "PASSWORD CORRECT!" shall appear next to it - and the game shall then proceed to the equipment selection screen where you will have to select two of six items (clockwork mouse, "Snoozy" Sleep spray, stethoscope, dynamite, iron bar and mirror) for Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward (International Rescue British agent) to take on this mission (the correct ones are the clockwork mouse and "Snoozy" Sleep spray). You will then have to select two of the four remaining items for Aloysius Parker (Lady Penelope's ex-safe-cracker of a butler) take on this mission; the correct items are the stethoscope and the dynamite (to crack the safe, so once again, without all four of these items, you have no chance of winning).

Time: 44 (1 second in game time is worth 15 seconds in real time) Once both Lady Penelope and Parker have appeared near the top of the map shown above (indicated by the text "THIS IS INTERNATIONAL RESCUE - THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!" scrolling past at the top of the screen), you shall have to make Lady Penelope start walking to the right (in the ZX and CPC versions, the colour of her outfit will change with the background) and use the "Snoozy" Sleep spray on the guard to knock him out; once you have done so you shall have to climb up a ladder, walk to the right, enter an elevator to go up a floor and walk to the right until you come to nine filing cabinets. You will then have to switch to Parker and follow Lady Penelope's path (in the ZX and CPC versions, his outfit colour will again change with the background) - and once you have done so you will have to drop the dynamite and look inside the second filing cabinet to find a key (indicated by the text "YOU TAKE A KEY FROM THE CABINET." scrolling past at the top of the screen). You will now have to walk back to the left, reenter the elevator to go back down a floor, walk to the right, climb down another ladder and walk to the right until you come to another elevator (labelled "THE VAULT"); once you have done so you will have to switch back to Lady Penelope, follow Parker's path and enter the elevator to go down another floor with Parker (indicated by the text "FLOOR 2" scrolling past at the top of the screen). You will then have to switch back to Parker, walk to the left until you come to a gold trolley (indicated by the text "THIS GOLD TROLLEY SEEMS VERY HEAVY." scrolling past at the top of the screen), start pushing it back to the right toward the elevator (he shall start out slowly, but gain in speed), reenter the second elevator to go down another floor with Lady Penelope and the gold trolley (indicated by the text "FLOOR 3" scrolling past at the top of the screen), and reenter the elevator to go down third floor with Lady Penelope and the trolley (indicated by the text "FLOOR 4" scrolling past at the top of the screen) - and once you have done it, you shall have to switch back to Lady Penelope, walk to the left, pick up another key, retrace your steps back to the elevator, and reenter it to go down fourth floor with Parker and the gold trolley (indicated by the text "FLOOR 5" scrolling past at the top of the screen). You must then reenter the elevator to go down a fifth floor with Parker and the trolley (indicated by the text "FLOOR 6" scrolling past at the top of the screen); once you have done so you will have to walk to the left until you come to a laser cannon which is firing beams down at the ground from its position in the top-right corner of the vault and drop the clockwork mouse (when it stops running, the cannon will stop firing!). You now have to switch back to Parker, walk to the left, climb down a third ladder, walk to the left, climb down a fourth ladder, walk to the right (as an armed guard starts walking after you), climb down a fifth ladder, and walk to the right - and once you have done it, you have to switch back to Lady Penelope, pick up that clockwork mouse again, follow Parker's path to the bottom of the fourth ladder, walk to the left, climb down sixth ladder, walk to the left, climb down a seventh ladder, walk to the right, and drop that clockwork mouse again (when it stops moving, the lights for the left side of the room Parker's currently in will come on). You shall then have to switch back to Parker, climb down an eighth ladder and walk to the left; once you've done so you'll have to switch back to Lady Penelope, climb down a ninth ladder, walk to the left, climb down a tenth ladder (there's a poster of Namco's Pac-Man on the wall here!), walk to the left, and pick up a third key. You'll then have to retrace your steps back up to the top of the ninth ladder and walk to the right - and once you do it, you will have to switch back to Parker, walk to the left, climb up the seventh ladder, walk to the right, climb up that sixth ladder, walk left, climb up an eleventh ladder, walk right, climb up a twelfth ladder, walk left until you come to a safe, and use stethoscope to open it (it contains a final key). You'll then have to pick up the key, retrace your steps back down to the bottom of that seventh ladder, walk back to the right until you come up to six more filing cabinets and a second safe, and drop both of your keys into the second and third cabinets - and once you have done so, you will have to switch back to Lady Penelope, drop both of your keys into the fourth and fifth cabinets to open that safe (containing papers) and pick up the papers to finish the mission. The text "WELL DONE! YOU HAVE RECOVERED THE PAPERS. YOU CAN NOW LOAD AND PLAY THE HOOD MISSION. RESET YOUR COMPUTER AND LOAD THE HOOD MISSION. PASSWORD NEEDED FOR THE HOOD MISSION IS - 'ANDERSON' TYPE IN THE PASSWORD WHEN REQUESTED TO." will then scroll past at the top of the screen and repeat until you reset it; you may remember that "Anderson" is the surname of the show's creator, Gerry Anderson (1929-2012), who also designed the C64 version, along with his second wife (from 1960 to 1980), Sylvia Anderson (1927-2016), who voiced Lady Penelope and several other characters in the show.