The Young Ones/Walkthrough

You shall first have to connect your Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC or Commodore 64 and cassette recorder to your television, then switch all three of them on; you shall now have to place the cassette of Orpheus's 1985 adventure game The Young Ones into the recorder, rewind it (unless this is your first time playing), type LOAD "" (without leaving a space between the quotation marks), and press Enter to load the program into the console. You will then have to press either 1 to select Mike, 2 to select Vyvyan, 3 to select Neil or 4 to select Rick (after you have pressed your desired student's number, the respective student shall animate) - and if you wish, you can now press 6 or 7 to select Cursor or Kempston joystick control if connected (however, the CPC and C64 versions do not support Cursor joystick control, so Kempston joystick control is selected by pressing 6 for those versions, and you can also press 5 in all three versions to switch back to keyboard control if you wish). You will then have to press 0 (Enter in the CPC and C64 versions) or the stick's button to start the game; all four students will then appear (Rick and Neil in the top half, Mike and Vyvyan in the bottom one).

Mike shall now say "MIKE THECOOLPERSON WANTS TO PICK UP THE BOMB" (if you selected him, you will have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "BOMB", then "PICK UP" to make him pick it up) as Neil walks into Vyvyan's room (if you selected him, you'll have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "VYV'S BEDROOM"), Vyvyan opens the door to the garden (if you selected him, you shall have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "GARDEN") and Mike follows him (if you selected him, you'll have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "GARDEN"); Neil shall then state "IF I DON'T PICK UP THE CHAINSAW, I DON'T THINK ANYONE ELSE WILL", and pick up the chainsaw (if you selected him, you'll have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "CHAINSAW", then "PICK UP" to make him pick it up), as Vyvyan walks to the hall (if you selected him, you shall have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "HALL") and Neil walks back out onto the landing (if you selected him, you'll have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "LANDING"). Neil will then say "OH MAN, I REALLY DO WANT TO PICK UP THE 10 POUND NOTE" and pick it up (if you selected him, you will have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "£10 NOTE", then "PICK UP" to make him pick it up) as Rick walks out of the bathroom (if you didn't select him), Vyvyan walks up the stairs to the landing (saying "DO WE HAVE TO GO THAT WAY?" before he does it and "THAT UTTER BASTARD MIKE HAS PICKED UP THE BOMB" after, and if you selected him, you shall have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "LANDING") - and Mike will then open the door to the hall (if you selected him, you shall have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "HALL"). Neil will then walk back into Vyvyan's room (if you did not select him) as Mike walks into the cellar (if you selected him you shall have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "CELLAR") and Rick walks into Neil's room (if you selected him, you'll have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "NEIL'S BEDROOM") and Neil walks back out of Vyvyan's room again (if you did not select him); Mike shall now say "THIS MAY NOT HELP THINGS, BUT I'M GOING TO PICK UP THE AXE" (if you selected him you will have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "AXE", then "PICK UP" to make him pick it up) as Vyvyan follows Rick into Neil's room (if you selected him you shall have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "NEIL'S BEDROOM") and picks up his bin-liner (if you selected him, you must select "ACTION" from the menu, then "BIN LINER", then "PICK UP" to make him pick it up), Mike walks into the broom cupboard (it's called "Below Stairs" by the game) and says "NOBODY MOVE TILL I PICK UP THE SUITCASE" (if you'd selected him you'll have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "SUITCASE", then "PICK UP" to make him pick it up), Rick walks out of his own bedroom (if you didn't select him), Mike picks up the hoover (if you selected him, you'll have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "HOOVER", then "PICK UP" to pick it up), and says "THIS MAY NOT HELP THINGS, BUT I'M GOING TO SWITCH ON THE HOOVER" (if you'd selected him, you'll have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "HOOVER", then "SWITCH ON" to make him switch it on). Mike shall now walk back out into the hall (if you'd selected him, you shall have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "HALL"), look in the wardrobe, and say "BUT THIS IS ONLY A WARDROBE" (if you selected him, you shall have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "NARNIA") - and this is a reference to a scene in the 1982 episode "Flood", when Vyvyan hid in the wardrobe while playing hide-and-seek and ended up in Narnia (from the book by CS Lewis, 1898-1963).

Vyvyan will now walk back out of Neil's room onto the landing (if you selected him, you will have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "LANDING") as Neil walks out of Rick's room and says "OH HEAVY, HEAVY, RICK HAS PICKED UP THE GIRLY DRESS" (if you didn't select him), Mike walks up the stairs to the landing (if you did not select him you'll have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "LANDING") and says "THIS MAY NOT HELP THINGS, BUT I'M GOING TO PUT DOWN THE AXE" (if you selected him, you shall have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "AXE", then "PUT DOWN", to make him put it down), then "MIKE THECOOLPERSON WANTS TO SWITCH ON THE HOOVER" (if you'd selected him you'll have to repeat what you did to make him switch it on the first time); Vyvyan will then walk into his own room (if you selected him, you will have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "VYV'S ROOM"), as Neil (who will have walked down the stairs to the hall if you didn't select him, but if you did, you'll have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "HALL") says "OH MAN, I REALLY DO WANT TO PICK UP THE ADDRESS BOOK" and picks up the address book (if you've selected him, you shall have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "ADDRESS BOOK", then "PICK UP", to make him pick it up). Vyvyan will then pick up the dissection kit (if you selected him, you shall have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "DISSECTION KIT", then "PICK UP" to make him pick it up) as Neil says "IF I DON'T PICK UP THE HANDBOOK, I DON'T THINK ANYONE ELSE WILL", and picks up the handbook (if you selected him, you will have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "HANDBOOK", then "PICK UP" to make him pick it up), then "IF I DON'T PUT DOWN THE £10 NOTE, I DON'T THINK ANYONE ELSE WILL" (if you selected him, you shall have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "£10 NOTE", then "PUT DOWN", to make him put it down). Vyvyan will now open the dissection kit (if you selected him, you'll have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "DISSECTION KIT", then "OPEN", to make him open it) to reveal a hand and a penknife, as Neil walks into the living room (if you selected him, you will have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "LIVING ROOM"), and says "OH MAN, I REALLY DO WANT TO PICK UP THE CRACKER" (if you selected him, you will have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "CRACKER", then "PICK UP", to make him pick it up), Mike walks into Vyvyan's room (if you picked him, you'll have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "VYV'S ROOM") and picks up the sledgehammer (if you selected him you'll have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "SLEDGE HAMMER", then "PICK UP" to make him pick it up), and Vyvyan picks up the hand and penknife (if you'd selected him, you will have to select "ACTION" from the menu twice, then "HAND" the first time and "PENKNIFE" the second time, then "PICK UP" to make him pick them up) - and Neil will now say "I DON'T LIKE TO GET HEAVY, BUT I REALLY OUGHT TO OPEN THE CRACKER" and open it (if you had selected him, you'll have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "CRACKER", then "OPEN" to make him open it), walk into the kitchen (if you picked him, you will have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "KITCHEN"), say "IF I DON'T OPEN THE SINK, I DON'T THINK ANYONE ELSE WILL" and open it (if you picked him you have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "SINK", then "OPEN" to make him open it). Mike will now walk back out of Vyvyan's room onto the landing (if you selected him you shall have to select "WALK" from the menu, then "LANDING"), as Rick (who will have walked down the stairs to the hall, if you did not select him) says "PUT DOWN THE GIRLY DRESS? THAT WOULD BE A PRETTY ANARCHIC THING TO DO!" (if you had selected him, and selected "ACTION", "GIRLY DRESS", and "PICK UP" from the menu to make him pick it up while he was in his room, you shall have to select "ACTION" from the menu, then "GIRLY DRESS" and "PUT DOWN" to make him put it down); this is a reference to a scene in the 1984 episode "Nasty" (when Rick boarded up Neil's room while he was bathing, so on seeing, he went into Rick's room and put on a dress he found there).