Tales of the Arabian Nights

Tales of the Arabian Nights
Developer: Interceptor Publisher: Interceptor Platform: Amstrad CPC Released in EU: 1985 This game has a hidden developer message.

Tales of the Arabian Nights is a game where the player collects pots that conveniently spell "ARABIAN" and dodges hundreds of obstacles, while the audio processor screeches Scheherazade over and over again.

Hidden Message

Inside the game's disk, there's a message at AA4B from one of the game's developers. Kevin Parker is credited as being a musician in the game, but the text here shows that he also did the copy protection.

PROTECTION SYSTEM BY KEVIN PARKER.

GAME AUDIO,VISUAL,CODE COPYRIGHT
INTERCEPTOR SOFTWARE 1985.

USE POWER SWITCH TO RESET.

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NOT ANOTHER PIRATE ? THAT MUST BE THE 937'TH ONE 
SINCE I PUT THIS AMAZING MUSIC INTO THIS RATHER 
DULL GAME . CANT WAIT TO I GET PAID FOR MY WORK 
- DO YOU REALISE I HAD TO RE-WRITE HALF OF IT 
BECAUSE IT WAS SO BAD ! 

WELL , THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR USING A 6502 
PROGRAMMER ON A REAL MACHINE LIKE THE AMSTRAD . 
COMING SOON - MUSIC WHILE YOU LOAD ! IF ANY 
SOFTWARE HOUSE OUT THERE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THIS 
UNIQUE NEW LOADING SYSTEM WITH THEIR PROGRAM THEN 
THEY MUST CONTACT ----- 

KEVIN PARKER , 19 RODWELL CLOSE , KINSON , 
BOURNEMOUTH , BH10 7JH . 

REASONABLE PRICES , MUSIC DATA SUPPLIED BY THE 
AUTHOR . ALSO AVAILABLE - AN AMAZING DISC 
PROTECTION SYSTEM FROM ODDBALL SOFTWARE - CONTACT 
KEVIN PARKER FOR DETAILS . MUST GO , I'VE GOT TO
PUT A TURBO ON THIS PROGRAM YET !! BYE BYE 4 NOW
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