Loogaroo - Werewolf Simulator
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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You are Tommy Astle, an experienced reporter for the local city newspaper and your Editor has just tasked you to investigate a few mysterious deaths. There has been talk of the supernatural and a mythical creature called The loogaroo and off course you are sceptical, but the further you investigate, the more you become a believer. Will you get to the bottom of these deaths and the creature or is it all just a myth?

Werewolf Simulator is a graphics text adventure where there is text describing your surroundings with a picture of what you see. You type in commands to explore further into the game.

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The Loogaroo is a monster found in Caribbean mythology. Oddly enough, its name is pronounced the same as "loup-garou", French for "werewolf", despite having nothing in common with were creatures.
According to the myth, the Loogaroo is an old woman who is said to be in league with The Devil. She will have magical abilities only if she gives the Devil blood every night. She tries to give him blood of other creatures, or else he will take her own blood, causing her to die.

The Loogaroo can leave its own skin (usually under a "Devil Tree," a silk cotton tree) and turn into a flame or blue ball of bright light that haunts the night searching for blood to meet the terms of her deal. After she has collected enough blood she can return to her skin and retake human form.

This creature is apparently compulsive and must stop to count grains of sand spread upon the ground. So, a defence against her was to leave a pile of rice or sand near your front door. Hopefully, the creature would take so long to count it all that the sun would eventually return with the coming of morning. By that time the Loogaroo would have to return to her skin without making an attack. In some tales of the Loogaroo, her skin can be taken away from the Devil Tree so that she cannot find it when she returns.

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Description from the packaging :

Life was never peaceful in the big city, but nothing had prepared you for the events to come.You, Tommy Astle, had seen all the facets of life in your job as news hound on the local rag,or so you thought. That night changed your opinions on a great many things. The deaths had occurred in strange circumstances and there had been talk of the supernatural. At first, you would have none of it but, as the investigation unfolded the truth began to dawn. A truth more terrible than you could guess. The woman had spoken of a creature from the realms of myth and superstition, the Loogaroo. Could it exist? Hack newswriter Tommy Astle was sure it could.

Werewolf Simulator is an adventure game with Graphics, written by Charles A Sharp of theDreaming Djinn, look out for his other adventures to be released through Top Ten. “DruidsMoon”. “Key to Paradox” and “A.R.E.N.A.” and the Xmas adventure “Jolly Poppa Down”.
Cover design & artwork by Jolyon Myers & his trusty AmigaLayout & setting by Godax Software Developments


http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Loogaroo
