Hong Kong Phooey/Walkthrough

You will first have to connect your Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 or Commodore Amiga (and cassette recorder, in the case of the ZX, CPC and C64 versions) to your television, then switch all three (or both, in the case of the Amiga version) of them on; you will then have to place the cassette (or disk, for the case of the Amiga version) of what is initially Hi-Tec Software's PAL Developments-developed (but was later Enigma Variations and Twilight-redeveloped) 1990 platform game Hong Kong Phooey inside the cassette recorder (or the console itself, for the case of the Amiga version), rewind it if it is not your first time playing it, type LOAD "" (without leaving a space between the quotation marks), and press Enter to load the program into the console (or wait for it to load automatically). In the ZX version, you'll then have to press either: 1 to continue, 2 for keyboard control, 3 for Kempston joystick control if connected or 4 for Sinclair joystick control if connected - however, in the CPC version, option 4 will not be present, and in the C64 and Amiga versions, all you shall have to do is press Space (or the button on the joystick in the case of the Amiga version) to start the game, but if you type PIERS ANTHONY on the Amiga version's title screen (which is the name of an English-American author!), it will make Phooey invincible.

Once Phooey has appeared on the screen, you will have to start walking to the right, and kick the three thugs who are walking towards you, to kill them; once you have done so, you will have to drop down to the bottom of a four-step staircase, to the second (two-step) platform, continue walking to the left and kick a fourth thug who is walking towards you, to kill him. Once you have done so, you will have to drop down to the lower step of the platform, and kick a fifth thug who is walking towards you, to kill him - and once you have done so, you will have to drop down another (six-step) staircase to the third platform, continue walking to the right and kick a sixth thug who is walking towards you to kill him. Once you have done so, you will have to jump over a group of four spikes, drop down a third (five-step) staircase, to the fourth platform (to the right, for the first to third steps, but to the left for the fourth and fifth ones), continue walking to the left over a conveyor belt, drop down onto the fifth platform, jump over another group of eight spikes to collect a drink can (and, restore that "Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu" to its initial state), kick a seventh thug who is walking up towards you to kill him, jump up to collect another drink can (and again restore the "Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu" to its original state), jump back over the second group of spikes and drop down to the sixth (five-step) platform - and once you have done so you will have to drop down to each of the lower steps of the platform in turn, drop down to the seventh platform (while trying not to land upon a seventh group of eight spikes!), continue walking to the left and kick an eighth thug who is walking towards you to kill him. Once you have done it, you will have to jump over to a fourth (four-step) staircase, drop down it to the eighth platform, continue walking to the right, and kick two more thugs who are walking towards you, to kill them; once you have done so, you will have to drop down a fifth (six-step) staircase (to the left, for the first to third steps, but to the right for the fourth to sixth ones) to the ninth (two-step) platform, continue walking to the right, drop down to the lower step of the platform, and kick an eleventh thug who is walking towards you while firing bullets (which can also be blocked by Phooey's attacks) to kill him. Once you do so you must drop down a sixth (five-step) staircase to the tenth (three-step) platform, continue walking to the left, jump onto each of the higher steps of the platform and over an eighth group of forty spikes in turn, and kick a twelfth thug walking towards you for to kill him - and once you have done it, you will have to jump over a pool of acid, and a ninth group of thirty-six spikes in turn, turn the switch on the wall "ON", retrace your steps back to the seventh platform, jump back over the seventh group of eight spikes, and a tenth group of eight spikes in turn, and kick a thirteenth thug who is walking towards you to kill him. Once you have done it, you will have to jump up a seventh (five-step) staircase to the eleventh platform, jump up onto two more platforms (the thirteenth one's three-step) in turn, retrace your steps back to the top of the second staircase, jump up to a fourteenth platform, turn that switch on the wall to "ON", retrace your steps back down to the eleventh platform, jump up to collect a note, retrace your steps back to the ninth platform, jump onto three more platforms, and over an eleventh group of eight spikes, in turn and kick a fourteenth thug who is walking towards you, to kill him; once you have done so, you will have to pick up another note, jump back over the eleventh group of eight spikes, up an eighth (three-step) staircase and up to six more platforms (the twenty-third of which is an elevator, and once Phooey lands on it, you will have to press Q to make it go up) in turn, jump up to six more platforms (the twenty-ninth of which is, again, another elevator) in turn, jump up to six more platforms (that thirty-fifth one is, once again, an elevator) in turn, jump up to two more platforms in turn, collect a third note, jump up to two more platforms in turn and kick a fifteenth thug who is walking towards you to kill him. Once you've done so, you will have to jump up to two more platforms (the fortieth one's two-step) in turn, continue walking to the left and kick a sixteenth thug who is walking up towards you while firing bullets to kill him - and once you have done so, you will have to drop down to the lower step of the platform, turn that switch on the wall to "ON", retrace your steps back down to the thirty-fourth platform (while trying not to land upon a twelfth group of eight spikes!), fall down onto the top of a ninth (three-step) staircase and its two lower steps in turn to land on the fortyfirst platform, continue walking to the left and kick three more thugs walking towards you to kill them. Once you have done it, you will have to jump onto a forty-second platform to collect a fourth note, drop down a tenth (four-step) staircase to the forty-third platform, continue walking to the right and kick three more thugs who are walking towards you to kill them; once you've done so, you will have to jump onto a forty-fourth platform to collect a fifth note, fall down an eleventh (four-step) staircase to the forty-fifth platform, continue walking to the left and kick a twenty-third thug who is walking towards you while firing bullets to kill him. Once you have done so, you will have to jump onto a forty-sixth platform to collect a sixth note, fall down a twelfth (four-step) staircase to the forty-seventh platform, continue walking to the right, and kick three more thugs who are walking towards you to kill them - and once you've done so, you will have to jump onto a forty-eighth platform to collect a seventh note, jump back over to a thirteenth (five-step) staircase and drop down it to the forty-ninth platform, continue walking to the left over another conveyor belt, jump over another pool of acid, to land on a fiftieth platform (which, yet again, is an elevator, and when you make it go up, you will collect a third drink can), drop onto two more conveyor belts in turn, jump onto three more platforms over a third pool of acid (which will fall as soon as Phooey stands on them), drop down to a fifth conveyor belt, jump over a fourth pool of acid, drop down to five more conveyor belts in turn, jump over a fifth pool of acid, jump onto an eleventh conveyor belt to collect an eighth note, walk back onto a fifty-fourth platform (which, again, shall fall as soon as Phooey stands upon it), to land on a fourteenth (five-step) staircase, jump up to a fifty-fifth platform, and kick a twenty-seventh thug who is walking towards you to kill him. Once you have done so, you will have to turn the switch on the wall to "ON", drop down to the fifty-sixth platform, continue walking to the left and kick two more thugs who are walking towards you to kill them; once you've done so you shall have to drop down a fifteenth (six-step) staircase (to the left for the first to third steps, but to the right for the fourth to sixth ones) over a sixth pool of acid in order to land on a twelfth conveyor belt, jump over seventh pool of acid and up to a fifty-seventh platform to collect a fourth drink can (and restore the "Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu" to its initial state) in turn, fall down to five more platforms in turn, jump onto three more platforms over an eighth pool of acid (which will, once again, fall down, as soon as Phooey stands on them) and two more usual platforms in turn, fall down onto a sixteenth (seven-step) staircase (to the left for the first to fourth steps, but to the right for the fifth to seventh ones) onto a sixtyeighth platform and kick three more thugs who are walking towards you to kill them. Once you have done it, you will have to jump up a seventeenth (three-step) staircase to a sixty-ninth platform and kick a thirty-third thug who is walking towards you while firing bullets, to kill him - and once you've done so, you'll have to drop down an eighteenth (seven-step) staircase (to the right for the first to third steps but to the left for the fourth to seventh ones) to land upon an oil drum on a sixty-ninth platform, jump to the left onto another oil drum, drop down onto a seventieth platform (which, for the fifth time, is an elevator, but you don't need to use this one) and the sixty-ninth one in turn, jump onto seventy-first platform, turn the switch on the wall to "ON", fall down to two more oil drums (the third of which has a skull-and-crossbones on it) on the seventy-second platform in turn, jump up to two more oil drums (which, again, both have a skull-and-crossbones on them!) in turn, drop down onto a seventh pipe, jump up to seventy-third platform to collect a ninth note, drop down onto six more conveyor belts in turn to collect a fifth drink can (and restore the "Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu" to its original state), retrace your steps back onto the thirteenth conveyor belt, jump onto the seventy-third platform and kick two more thugs who are walking towards you to kill them. Once you have done this, you must fall down onto seven more conveyor belts in turn and over a fifteenth pool of acid, in order to land on the seventy-fourth platform, jump onto a nineteenth (four-step) staircase, drop down onto the seventy-fifth (two-step) platform in turn, and kick three more thugs who are walking towards you while firing bullets to kill them; you will then have to drop down to the platform's lower step and kick a thirty-ninth thug who is walking towards you while throwing knives to kill him. Once you do, you'll have to jump up onto six more platforms in turn (the seventy-eighth one, for a sixth time, is an elevator!), while watching out for a falling barrel, jump up a twentieth (five-step) staircase (to the right, for the first to third steps, but to the left for the fourth and fifth ones) and onto an eighty-second platform (which, for a seventh time, is an elevator!), jump up a twenty-first seven-step staircase (to the right for the first to fourth steps, but to the left when referring to those fifth to seventh ones) while watching for two more falling barrels and onto five more conveyor belts and the eighty-third (two-step) platform in turn while watching out for fourth falling barrel, jump over a sixteenth pool of acid to collect a sixth drink can (and restore the "Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu" to its original state), jump onto the higher step of the platform and kick two more thugs walking up towards you to kill them - then, once you've done so, you'll have to fall down to a twenty-second (seven-step) staircase, jump up it (to the left for the first to third steps, but the right for the fourth to seventh ones), to the eighty-fourth (two-step) platform, jump onto an eighty-fifth platform to collect a tenth note, jump back onto higher step of the eighty-fourth platform, and kick two more thugs who are walking towards you while throwing knives, to kill them. Once you do, you required to drop down over a seventeenth pool of acid, jump up a twenty-third seven-step staircase (to the left for those first to third steps, but to the right for those fourth to seventh ones) for to collect an eleventh note, jump to the left onto an eighty-sixth platform and kick three more thugs walking towards you, to kill them; once you have done so, you shall have to jump up to two more platforms (the eighty-seventh one, for the eighth time, is an elevator) and kick a forty-sixth thug walking towards you to kill him. Once you do this, you must jump up to the eighty-ninth platform and kick a forty-seventh thug walking towards you while throwing knives to kill him - and once you've done it, you'll have to jump over a thirteenth group of thirty-two spikes and kick a forty-eighth thug who is walking towards you to kill him. Once you have done it you will have to jump up a twenty-fourth (four-step) staircase, and onto six more platforms over an eighteenth pool of acid in turn, turn the switch upon the wall to "ON", fall down to four more platforms (those ninety-seventh, ninety-eighth and ninety-ninth of which are over three more groups of eight spikes, and will, yet again, fall as soon as Phooey stands on them), jump onto a 100th platform (which, for the ninth time, is an elevator), drop down to the 101st platform, turn back to the left and kick three more thugs who are walking towards you, to kill them; once you have done so, you will have to drop down a twenty-fifth (seven-step) staircase (jumping to the right for the first to third steps, but to the left for the fourth to seventh ones), to the 102nd (two-step) platform, jump over a nineteenth acidic pool, onto the second step, fall down a twenty-sixth (seven-step) staircase (to the left for the first to third steps, but to the right for the fourth to seventh ones) to the 103rd platform, jump up to collect a seventh, last drink can (and restore the "Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu" to its original state), jump onto the 104th platform and over a seventeenth group of eight spikes, drop down to the 105th platform and jump over acidic pools in turn, turn switch on the wall to "ON", fall down a twenty-sixth three-step staircase in order to land upon the 106th platform, jump onto five more platforms (the 107th, 108th, 109th and 110th of which are over an eighteenth group of sixty-eight spikes, and will, for a fifth and last time, fall when Phooey stands upon them) in turn, fall down onto four more conveyor belts (the twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth ones are over three more groups of eight spikes) in turn, jump over two more pools of acid, fall down to each of the two lower steps of the 112th three-step platform in turn and kick two more thugs who are walking towards you while firing bullets and throwing knives to kill them. Once you have done all this, you shall have to turn the switch on the wall to "ON", retrace your steps back to the highest step of the platform, drop down to the ground (while trying not to land on a twenty-second group of twenty spikes) and kick three more thugs who are walking towards you while throwing knives to kill them - and once you've done it, you'll come to Baron Von Bankjob himself. However, players expecting a boss battle will be disappointed, as the screen will fade out and the text of "HONG KONG PHOOEY MESSES THINGS UP, BUT LUCKILY SPOT IS THERE TO SAVE THE DAY. CONGRATULATIONS!!!" will appear on it.