Bored of the Rings (ZX Spectrum)

Before making Psycho Killer and The Town With No Name, Delta 4 made quite a few simple text adventure games. Bored of the Rings was one of those games, with humor on par with the latter.

Developer Messages
In the boot-up sequence of Tape A of the tape version, there are two sets of hidden messages.

BOGUS! Judith doesn't really hate me. I don't think so, anyway! nilraC is a gastard. ...MANDY, MANDY, MANDY!

Blessed are the large, hairy programmers... For they shall bonk erotic persons... I hope!

There's a message commenting on Mandy at.

Mandy is perfect.

Tape B also has its own messages: I love Mandy & Catherine (who can blame me?)

There's also a message at on the same tape. I love you Mandy.

At in part 1 of the .z80 dump, there's a small message encouraging hackers to look into part 2.

BORED OF THE RINGS © 1985 DELTA 4 Software By Fergus McNeill
 * Try hacking part 2 for more

Indeed, at in part 2 of the same dump, another message exists. As a method to decode the proceeding message is unknown, it is provided here in its raw hex form.

"Bored Of The Rings" © 1985 DELTA 4 Software Author Fergus McNeill

"Hello" to Steph, Jackie, Morag, Clair, Sarah, Emma, Jill and Bucket. A very SPECIAL "hello" to Emma, Kay, Gwyneth(hope I spelt it right!), Charlotte, Fiona and of course Judith who I want to í bed with (and hopefully þ!) Greetings Simon Brattel & Yaz, the 2 certain to hack this.

THE HATEFULS: Chaka-Carlin, Turvey(Yoda), The Piman, Fartin "sack 'im" Croft and Mrs Shotlander. Reviewer mentions "Hi there" Tony Bridge, Bob Chappel & Graham "Oh God" Taylor. Hello Jon & Mott (of DD fame), Mrs Nobbs, Mrs Pearson, the excellent Mr Kevern and the hilarious Mr Noble. There follows a coded message:

D0 D4 7B 2A C8 A8 7B E2 CD 20 3C CB 23 CC 20 36 CC 23 3F CB 20 87 83 85 95 84 95 84 20 32 25 63 84 21

Hello Jimmy, Laz, Steve (Bronski Beat) and any old wogs out there who like the spunk plus the bomb plus the pump plus the torture instrument divided by BANG!

This is your game's author typing: I am glad you've hacked so far. However we're running out of space and into the Â set so I'll have to finish now. See you in part 3! **!FM!**