Walkthrough - Gold Rush!

walkthrough: GOLDRUSH!

 

 

 INTRODUCTION

 

 Welcome to GOLDRUSH! The game takes place in 1848, and begins in

Brooklyn Heights, New York. Your name is Jerrod Wilson, you work in a

newspaper office, and you're not very satisfied with life. The object

of the game is to travel from New York to California and strike it

rich!

 

 You have exactly 14 minutes from the time the game starts until the

gold rush begins. When this happens, your possessions drop in value

and prices skyrocket. Therefore, you must have completed all your

transactions before then. It is advisable just to walk around and

learn the location of everything, then restart the game.

 

 There are three routes to California. Depending on which route you

take, you must accumulate different items in Brooklyn. Ready for

adventure? Okay, let's go!

 

 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS: YOUR HOUSE

 

 You start the game on a bridge facing east. Cross the bridge, and go

down the screen. Your house is on the corner. Unlock the gate and

door, and go inside. Look at the album on the table. Get the family

picture that brings back all those memories. Go over to the desk. It's

a rolltop desk; so, roll the top. Get the bank statement that was

hidden underneath. Read the statement to find your bank account

number. (Note: Each time you restart the game you will have a

different account number.) Leave the house.

 

 Since you have decided to leave for California, you might as well

sell your house. Just type SELL HOUSE. A buyer will come along. You

can either wait for him, or just leave and come back later. Don't

worry if you get a message that he left; he'll return again. He will

offer you $850 for your house. Take the money.

 

 GAZEBO

 

 Walk west into the next screen. Go into the gazebo. Do not walk on

the grass, or a cop will come and take a point away from you! Get the

flowers, then enter the gazebo. Look into the crack in the floor. Keep

moving around and looking until you find the gold coin. Get it.

 

 POST OFFICE

 

 Go west again, that's the post office on the corner. Go in and ring

the bell. Ask for your mail. If he says you have none, leave and try

again in a minute or so. Once you have the letter, look at the letter,

the postmark, and the stamp. Now, look under the stamp. Hey! It's

_gold_! Open the letter and read it. Your brother has found gold and

wants you to come join him. Leave the post office.

 

 NEWSPAPER BUILDING

 

 Go to the left and into the large white building. This is the

newspaper building where you work. Go to your office. You don't know

where it is? But you work here! Oh well...it's up the stairs, last

office at the bottom on the right. Walk to your desk, and look under

the blotter. Get the clippings, and read them. (Now you know the story

about your brother). Well, if you're planning a trip out West, you'd

better quit your job. Go downstairs to the boss's office (the first

one on the left), and tell him you're quitting.

 

 BANK, WAREHOUSE, CEMETERY

 

 Go into the bank. Make sure you know your account number. Go to a

teller and type GET MONEY. Give him the account number when he asks

for it. Go north into the warehouse, and read the poster inside. The

address to get tickets is next door to your old house. Go back down to

the cemetery and find your parents' graves. (Hint: They are the only

two that look alike and are next to each other.) Read each grave, and

put the flowers down (sniff).

 

 WHAT TO BUY IN BROOKLYN

 

 Up to this point, everything you need to accomplish in Brooklyn is

the same -- no matter which route you plan to take to get to

California. If you are planning to go via sea, you must remember that

the steamship leaves exactly 18 minutes after the game begins. Go to

the house next door to your old one. Answer the questions the man asks

you, and tell him which ticket you want. (Note: The price of the

tickets will skyrocket after the GOLD RUSH! starts. Make sure you buy

them before then.) If you intend to go via Panama, you'll need the

mosquito net from Rand's Hardware store. If you're planning to go via

the Cape Horn route, you will need the fruit.

 

 If you want to go via land, then just go and buy your ticket from the

stagecoach office. After buying the ticket, go to the stable, and SHOW

TICKET to the little guy in white. He'll escort you to the coach.

Enter the coach, and the rest will take care of itself.

 

 THE PANAMA ROUTE

 

 There is nothing to do on the ship. You will not die of mosquito

bites if you bought the net. When you reach the jungle you will have

to follow the rest of the crew. Talk to the man under the tree, and

he'll give you a Bible. (No matter which route you take, there will

always be a man reading a Bible: Take the Bible.)

 

 Walk to where you see the hanging vine. As soon as the killer ants

start to appear, jump onto the vine, and hang there until they leave.

Go onto the next screen. There are four paths through this screen, but

you can't see any of them. Do not use the first two. You will have to

do this screen by trial and error. (Save the game before you try it.)

The third and fourth paths take you through. For extra points, take

the fourth path -- the hardest to finish. When your toe hits

something, look down. Pick up the gold disk.

 

 The next screen is also solved via trial and error. Don't take a

straight path across the swamp, or you'll sink in. Occasionally, a

crocodile will eat you, too, but not every time. If this happens,

you'll have to restore. After that, the game runs by itself until you

reach Sacramento.

 

 THE CAPE HORN ROUTE

 

 Look around the ship. (The man who will give you the Bible is at the

right end of the ship.) There's not much to do until the storm;

anything you collect before the storm will be lost. So, even if you

find items before the storm, do not pick for them up (except the

Bible). Purely at random, you may die of Cholera. If you do, you will

have to restore back to Brooklyn. (Restoring to a point later than

Brooklyn won't help.)

 

 You will not die of scurvy if you have the fruit. Now, you need food,

and there seems to be plenty of fish in the sea; so, let's go fishing.

Do not stand on the deck during the storm, or you'll get swept

overboard. Sometime during (or after) the storm, get the string from

the bunk room, the paper clip from the captain's office, the bait

(ham) from the cooks' table, metal scraps from the boiler room, and a

pole from the bottom floor (where the engine is being stoked). Go to

the back of the ship and type FISH. The game runs by itself after

that, until you reach Sacramento.

 

 VIA LAND

 

 Once you join up with the mining company, go over and talk to the

captain. He wants money, so give him what you have. He'll ask you to

obtain animals for the trip. Go down a screen and buy animals. Which

animals do you need? You're going on a long journey, so you are better

off buying the mature mules.

 

 Go back and tell the captain, and he'll give you a second job. He

wants you to tell him when it's time to leave. Go up a screen, and

keep looking at the grass. As soon as you get a message saying that

the ground is getting greener and drying up, tell the captain. You

should have also bumped into our friend with the Bible (he's sitting

under the tree).

 

 When you reach the steep hill, unhitch the team, and let the animals

go to drink and rest. To stop them from pulling you and the wagon over

the cliff, you must lock the wheels. When you get thirsty, drink water

from the barrel in the coach.

 

 SACRAMENTO

 

 Whichever way you arrive, you must immediately go to the stagecoach

office. It's in the building just left of the middle of the screen. Go

in, and look at the schedule. If you have missed the stagecoach to

Sutter's Fort, then you will have to restore; otherwise, get onto the

stagecoach.

 

 SUTTER'S FORT

 

 Walk around the fort. Find the blacksmith, and talk to him. Give him

your name and your brother's name. He'll give you your brother's

branding iron. Go to the graveyard and read the graves until you find

your father's. Read the grave. There is a cannon at the top. Psalms

23? Read it in your Bible. The phrase "Green Pastures" is in capital

letters. Use the envelope. Move it around until you are told it's in

place. Aha! So that's what those strange markings were for. Read the

letters. It says ROOM 12, or is it ROOM 21? Go back into the fort and

buy a gold pan. It's time to try your luck at finding gold.

 

 PANNING FOR GOLD

 

 You have to be at least 10 miles from the fort to find gold. (The

bottom of the screen will tell you how many miles away you are). Walk

in the stream, and keep panning. You will be able to find gold 50

times. Do not pan if there is anyone else in the screen, or you'll be

hung! Once you have all your gold, go back to the fort. Watch out for

the thieves: They'll take everything away from you.

 

 BUYING THE REST OF YOUR SUPPLIES

 

 Go and buy a mule. Take it to the blacksmith, heat up your branding

iron, and brand the mule (with your brother's mark). Take the mule to

the stable, and leave him there while you shop for supplies. Go back

to the store where you got the pan, and buy the shovel and a lantern.

Now, go back to get your mule. Look at all the mules until you find

the one with your brand on it. If it says it's a quiet, tame animal,

you don't want it. Your brother has left his mule there for you; you

want to get his instead. Once you have it, head back toward town

(southeast). Be careful not to lose your mule.

 

 THE GREEN PASTURES HOTEL

 

 Find the hotel. It's called Green Pastures! You recognize that from

the Bible! Tie up your mule to the post outside. Go inside and look at

rooms 12 and 21. Hmm...Room 12 looks suspicious. Go back downstairs

and look around. There is a message box. Ask for your message. You are

told you don't have any messages because you're not staying at the

hotel! But can you do the man a favor by delivering a message to the

man in Room 11. Say YES.

 

 Take the message, knock at the door, and give the man his message.

When he leaves, quickly walk into his room. (If he catches you in

there, you'll have to restore.) To get into Room 12, go to the left

wall, and look at the fireplace. Aha! You recognize that cannon. When

you turn the wheel, the fireplace opens. Go through the fireplace into

Room 12.

 

 ROOM 12

 

 Look around the room. Get the string from the floor, and the magnet

and note from the table. Read the note. What is that bird cage doing

there? Open the window, and in flies a bird. Look at the bird, read

the note in the capsule, and put your identification in the capsule.

What identification? The family picture, of course! Off flies the

bird; when it returns, look in the capsule. Get the "pigeongram" and

read it. Follow? Stubborn? Aha! You've heard the expression "as

stubborn as a mule," right? Follow that mule!

 

 JAKE'S HOME

 

 Take the mule back out of town, and type FOLLOW MULE. It moves quite

quickly, and seems to know where it's going; be careful not to lose

track of it. (Watch out for robbers.) When you reach Jake's home, go

inside. Get the matches. Go outside to the outpost, then go down the

hole in the middle of the outpost.

 

 THE CAVE

 

 Light your lantern and proceed down the cave. Do this as quickly as

you can; save whenever you make progress because you only have a

limited amount of oil in the lantern. You reach a door that's locked,

and you have no key. But there's a hole in the door, and it's the same

shape as the branding iron! Tie the magnet to the string and lower it

through the hole. Move it around until you hear a "clunk." Then, pull

up the key carefully.

 

 Open the door and go down in the cave. Be very careful on the

ladders. Continue down to the bottom left, and get the pick. Keep

digging for gold as you walk through the caves. Once you have found a

couple of pieces of gold, go up the long ladder to the top. Take the

gold nuggets on the right. Move down the ladder a little, and you find

the mine on the left.

 

 THE END

 

 Carefully enter the mine (save the game first; it's very easy to fall

off the ladder here). Down in the mine you go; keep using the pick as

you go along. Eventually, you will find yourself in a large room which

contains...your brother!

 

 Talk to him, and he tells you that he's almost made the ultimate gold

discovery! Use your pick. When you find gold, keep digging in that

same spot. While you're digging, you will discover a cavern. As soon

as the entrance is big enough, walk through.

 

 You've done it! You and your brother now have as much gold as you

could ever dream of! Well done!