Tommy's hollywords (c) copyright 1992-1997 by tommy's toys
P. O. Box 11261, denver, co 80211 usa. All rights reserved.
Catalog #tm-138-1a
Instructions:
Did you know that peter sellers was the vice president of the london judo
Society? That ub iwerks was the actual creator of mickey mouse, and later
Was responsible for the special effects in the 1963 film "the birds"? That
"the robe" (1953) was the first cinemascope movie? That blossom rock, a.k.a.
Marie blake, who played grandmama on tv's "the addams family" was really
Edith, younger sister of actress jeanette macdonald? That the actor who
Provided the demon's voice in the 1973 film "the exorcist" was mercedes
Mccambridge? That e.t.'s voice was provided by debra winger? That the first
Person put under contract to star in a movie was heavyweight champ james j.
Corbette, by thomas edison in 1894?
Then you must like the movies! How much do you know about movie titles?
This game will test your knowledge to the max!
You are given the names of 2 lead actors from a movie, scrambled up. You are
Given a clue as to the title of the movie, and you are given the movie title
Scrambled up. You must then unscramble the actors' names and the movie title!
Let's practice:
clue: their friends died young, but not from lack of exercise.
actors: aclkr lagbe niviev heigl
title: ngoe whti eht dinw
Tick...tock....tick...tock....time up! What was the answer?
(answers: clark gable, vivien leigh, gone with the wind)
The game can be played solo, or by up to 6 players or teams of players.
There are two levels of play, in level 1 each word is scrambled separately,
In level 2 each word is scrambled separately then the word order is also
Scrambled. In level 3 each phrase is scrambled along with the embedded
Blanks.
Solo game (1 player):
In the solo game you play against the clock, trying for the minimum time on
10 puzzles. You can give up on a puzzle (by hitting function key f9) but you
Get zero points! If you don't give up, your score is based on the number of
Seconds you took, maximum is 1000. If you can't get it right in 2000 seconds
(approx. 30 minutes) you get a score of zero. High scores are automatically
Kept by the computer on disk on the file hollywrd.scr, which you can erase if
You want to clear the high scores. Note: to make the game more challenging,
The computer does not tell you whether you are right until you have all 3
Puzzle lines right: actor 1, actor 2, movie title; there is no "beep" when you
Get a given line right. If this bothers you, bombard us with postcards and
Maybe we'll add it in as a mode in a future version!
Team game (2-6 players):
In the team game, you guess the puzzle in stages, first the actors' names,
Then the movie title. Teams play in rotation, the first team up being chosen
Randomly by the computer. The program helps by revealing one letter of
The name or title before starting the guess-clock. You have 30 seconds to get
The right answer or the next team is up. If you guess right, you get to keep
The turn and get another 30 seconds to guess the next item, or you can pass.
You get 200 play dollars for guessing each actor's name, 300 for the movie
Title, and 300 bonus if you guess all three! The team winning the most money
Wins the round; a tie doesn't count and the round is done over. A new round
Is always started by the next team in rotation, not the team winning the
Previous round. The first team to win 3 rounds wins the game and gets to play
A bonus round! (note: function key f8 pops-up a cumulative scores display.)
Bonus round (team game):
The winner of the game goes on to a bonus round for big prizes. You get 60
Seconds to solve the movie title alone with the clue and actors' names
Given to you for free. Good luck! If you get it right, you get $25,000 (play
Money, don't write us asking for a check - ha ha!).
To guess:
The esc key switches between 2 modes, letter and word swap. Word swap is
Only used in game levels 2 and 3.
Just use the left/right arrow keys on the numeric key pad to hilite the first
Letter or word you want, then press the <enter> key or spacebar to hilite it;
Then use the left/right arrow keys to select the second letter or word you
Want, and press the <enter> key or spacebar to swap it with the first.
The program senses automatically when you get the right answer.
Use the up/down arrow keys to move from one phrase to another in solo mode.
Demo mode: function key f2 toggles the demo mode. In demo mode, the computer
Runs through the puzzles but doesn't answer them. Note: to keep you from
Raising the score by menuing the questions, the game is restarted every time
F2 is pressed.
Sound effects toggle: function key f1 toggles the sound effects on and off.
To quit: hit function key f7 then "y".
To change the screen border color (color monitors only): hit function key f10.
For mono monitors only: f10 changes the pseudo-color of the puzzle entries.
To display these instructions: hit function key f5.
Decade selection:
Function key f6 pops-up a menu for limiting the movie titles to a certain
Range of years or decade, if desired. Be sure the data file(s) have enough
Titles in that range of years to play a game!
Hollywords data files:
Tommy's hollywords operates on up to 100 modular data files, which means
That any one or more of them can be present and the program will pick and
Choose puzzles at its whim from those that are; the current data file
Number (0..99) in use is shown in the lower right hand corner of the screen
While playing.
All hollyword data files have the names "hollydat.n", where n=0... The program
Keeps auxiliary files "hollyaux.n" to record which questions have been used so
Far; the size of each hollyaux.n file is 10+2*m, where m=maximum number of
Puzzles allowed per hollydat.n file; currently m=3000 (if there are any more
Puzzles than that in a file, they are ignored).
Dos paths:
The program first assumes that the hollydat.n files are on the default dos
Path (the one you get with the path command). If it can't find any files
There, it asks you for another path. You can then enter, for example,
D:\holly\ or c:\. Upon exiting, the program stores the hollyaux files on
That path, not the default path; that way, the data and its usage reside on
The same path, so, for example, you can have one hollydat.3 file on one
Subdirectory and another hollydat.3 on another subdirectory, with no conflict.
The high score file, however, is held on the default dos path, since it
Doesn't matter where the data came from when we are talking about high scores.
File parameter display:
At the bottom left of the game screen there are some numbers displayed. Here
Is what they mean:
1. Number of puzzles in current data file (the one listed on the bottom
right of the screen) that have not been used up. Initially, when there's
no aux file for that data file and the program hasn't scanned through
the file yet to count the number of puzzles, this number if 3000 (the
maximum file capacity m); when the program has reached end-of-file on
that data file, it finally knows the true number of puzzles in the file
and adjusts accordingly -- hence the second time it starts through this
file the number of 'unused' puzzles may jump down considerably.
2. The number of the last puzzle used: a demo mode question is not used so
it doesn't count.
3. The current puzzle being examined by the program: watch it skip
through to what it wants.
4. The next puzzle it plans to go to (it hops through the data file in
random size hops so if you delete the aux file and run the program
again, the puzzles will come out in a different order).
Command line parameters:
s start up with sound effects off
m force mono display mode
c force color display mode
* skip the startup show
Example: >hollywrd ms
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Did you like this toy?
Don't forget to try our gobs of other neat low-priced toys and games for the
Ibm pc and compatibles. We are waiting to send you our 5.25 inch (360kb) or
3.5 inch (720kb) demo disk, containing an electronic catalog and other
Goodies, for only $2 shipping/handling to any u.s. address, $3 outside u.s.
(u.s. dollars only).
Versions:
All versions come with hollydat.1, containing at least 500 puzzles. When
You pay for the retail version we include hollydat.2, with another 500 puzzles.
P.s. help tommy!
Don't forget to report any bugs or defects in the program or data at once:
We often send free toys and games to bug hunters, so hurry and get yours!
Just list the info. In a postcard or letter and include your name and
Address. Send to tommy's bug hunt c/o tommy's toys.
Enjoy!
Tommy's toys, p.o. box 11261, denver, co 80211 usa.
