Backstage

The computergame for music fans! Yet another german promotional game for the commodore amiga. Developed by Touch of Magic/Art Department and published by Liveclub/RM Buch und Medien Vertrieb GmbH in 1993.

P.S. the game is free to copy

An international rock superstar is in town. If you solve five tasks, you can experience the star close up and behind the stage with a backstage pass. By the way - there is also something to win for you: After solving the first, third and fifth task you have the chance to access and order three cd's or videos for the price of one. At the end, five beautiful Fiat cinquecento awaits their winners.

Hello and welcome backstage!

Backstage is a computer game by liveclub. In which you have to try to find the solutions for the competition, organized by the local radio station. If you make it, you can go out and eat with your favorite star, and even get a backstage pas ticket for the next livegig. So that you can experience it really close up. To make you really motivated, the liveclub has come up with a very special incentive:
If you can do it and be the first to answer the questions from the radio station. You get a keyword and have the opportunity to participate in the competition. In which you can win one of 5 (five) fiat cinquecentos. So, do not wait long. Because the deadline is 30.06.1996 the right way is excluded.

More information about the game - Control:
Backstage control is via the joystick. If you want to talk to people or examine objects, then you have to press the joystick button.

The icons in the panel can be scrolled with the cursor keys <right> and <left>. By pressing the corresponding function keys (eg F4 for the fourth icon), you can look at the objects or, activate. With the 'escape' button you can leave the game.

WALKTHROUGH
First of all, go and talk to the lady from Radio 107.3 who hands over the note with the 5 questions for the competition.
To get there, you must go out the front door and take the gold fiat cinquecentos.
In the next street, you must go to the left side. Enter the door to the radio station, and talk to the receptionist.

Then you drive back home in your nice fiat cinquecentos, go to the first floor and look at the bookshelf between the computer and phone, for a hand signed LP by Alex X Pose.

Then you go to the underground subway, which is at the end of the street where the apartment of our adventure heroes is located. Pass the vending machine, which you can not use, and take the escalator to the subway. Try and talk to the man in brown suit and a brown hat. You are going to talk to him a few times.

After leaving the subway, you go to the end of the street, where you enter the department store "Kaufrausch". Because the escalator broke you must uses the elevator up to the 1st floor and turn left. Where you talk to the shop assistant several times about the latest CD with Alex X. Pose, and why they she do not have the CD in the store.

After the failed attempt get the CD, you go back and take the elevator to the ground floor, where you stop a man running around, which turns out to be a friend of our hero and gives him a game called "Backstage".

Now you go back home using the subway, go to the computer on the 1st floor and play the
Backstage game. After our hero found the phonenumber for Liveclub in the game, go to the phone and call the Life Club in order to become VIP club member.

Now you leave the apartment for a moment and then go back in. A package just arrived at the dresser to the left of the entrance door, open it. You immediately hear the new CD on the stereo at the 1st floor and you have now solved the first answer!

Now you leave the house again and go to the nearest door to the right of house of our hero. Trie to use the switch in the corner of the room, which is not possible due to the dog.
Therefor  you go back to the house and look in the fridge for a piece of meat, use the meat to get friendly with the dog in the chopshop. then press the switch to lover the car on the lift and  you can open the left door and remove the key.

With the key you go to the next door on your right (Liveclub magazine). Go inside and continue to your right side. Now you use the key from the car in the locked door, to get access to the photo lab of Liveclub magazine, where you will find the photo of Alex X. Pose. Look at the photo, you have now solved the third answer!

Once back in the editorial of the Live club magazine, you go to the man all the way back on the left side of the room. And ask him for a advertisement in the magazine.in the search for the fourth question.

Now you go back to the subway and once again talk to the man with a brown suit and a brown hat. You sit opposite to him and make a short conversation.
You get up, and the go back to the man. Keep talking to him, until he tell you about his calling card collection. And give you a tip about the live club phone card.

Now you go home, a packed has arrived. Open the packed and pick up the answering machine and go to the 1st floor, where you immediately connect the answering machine to the phone.

Now take the fiat cinquecentos and drive to the next street. Go to the right until you reach a building with the sign "Music Hall", and go inside. Speaks to the janitor on the new stage show, and he will tell you about a chess problem.Now you ask him for his option in the chess game, and tell him that you can not help ...

Now you drive back home in your fiat cinquecentos. Go to the subway and drive to the other street. There you must find the live club store (which is before the shopping mall "Kaufrausch"). Inside you go to the right and down to the lower level. Look for a chess book at the book shelf.

Then you go to the floor above the one with the books and look until you find a comedy video.

Now you go to the cashier on the left side to checkout and pay. Then you go out of the store and drive back home again. Then take the fiat cinquecentos back to the "Music Hall" to the janitor and offers an exchange, the book for news about the stage show. You now have the second answer!

Now you drive back home and listen to the answering machine. A Mr. "Wagner" has offered the answer to the 4th question, in return for the hand signed LP. You call him immediately and agreed to meet the Italian restaurant, after the conversation you drive by subway to the restaurant and go up the stairs, where a gentleman are sitting by the table with only 1 free Chair, you join him and he gives you the answer to the fourth answer!

Return to you car and drive to next street. You must go all the way to the end of street and enters the swimming pool and talk to the cashier, where our heroes realise that he needs his swimming trunks. So you go back home and on the first Floor you take the bathing trunks from the wardrobe, and then into the bathroom (ground floor) for the towel.

Now you drive back to the swimming pool and go inside. Go down the starirs to the ground floor. Then find the other stairs and go up. Our hero watches the video surveillance in the locker room ,  and realizes that he must distract the pool attendant. In order to get the the fifth answer. You go in to the pool area with normal clothing. Talk to the man walking around, and he will tell you where to find the pool attendant.

His answer inspires our hero - the answer to the last question is in sight.
Now leve the lifeguard at the pool area. Find the pool attendant behind the door in the dressing room, and give him the video with the comedy from the live club.

Our hero can finally go up the stairs and enter the room with the garbage can and look into the trash in order to find the fifth and last answer!

With the 5 answers you go back to the fiat cinquecentos but do not use it.
You continue to the radio station 107.3 and revisits the Lady at the front desk and givel her the 5 answers.

Now our heros wish is coming true, and he is having a lot of fun with his idol Alex X. Pose.....

Answers to the 5 questions:
1.) expose all your fears
2.) riesiges Spinnennetz
3.) rot
4.) Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte
5.) Er sammelt Australische Wüstenrennmäuse

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Bi-Fi II - Action in Hollywood

A great German promotional game from 1994. Developed by the Art Department and published by BI-FI roll Germany, for the commodore amiga. Lucas is back, Bi-Fi die zweite. Wilkommen zu "action in Hollywood" !!!

Bi-Fi roll - the minisalami, has again developed a new adventure game, which provides fun and excitement. This game is freeware, have fun copying it to your friends.
After the last Bi-Fi game (Snack Zone) had been so successful, it was only a matter of time until a successor had to appear, BIFI 2!

The player assumes the role of a young messenger who has to deliver a script in a huge film studio. , for the new BiFi spot. Things are not quite right, so the delivery of the script is not so easy. Unfortunately the director, is nowhere to be found.

Countless films, people and series are ripped off, from spaceship grappling hook, Beverly wood 08/15, Cleveland Jones, Öliens VII - cattle, you want to live forever, the director Spülberg to the new Rambowsky movie and many many more.

The game is an adventure held in the style of Indiana Jones and Monkey Island II. You speak to other people with the help of given questions and answers, collect objects in one place and use them in the right order. The graphics are great for a freeware game. The game is pretty easy. The tasks are not difficult and can be solved by logical thinking.

Also read my beginner´s guide to getting started playing abandonware.

Bi-Fi: Snackzone

Promotional game from the german company BiFi. Released in 1993 for the commodore amiga. Developed by The Art Department. BiFi is an originally German brand of sausage-based snacks. In the original version, it is a thin, jerky-like salami. Variations include a poultry-based salami, a salami wrapped in a white or wheat roll.

Luke is our hero. With the joystick you let him run through the game. To change a street, talk to someone or enter a house, push the joystick up.The production secret for the Bi-Fi roll has disappeared. The production stops n a few days, and no bi-fi roll will be available anymore. Luke's job is to recover the documents with the secret recipe.

At the kiosk, Lukas can buy snacks to increase his energy and snack values. Energy snack and emotion points are important in solving specific tasks. Don't forget to visit other important buildings, such as the gas station, disco or Cinema.


THE PAINT GAME
Your task is to paint all the squares. A box is colored by running over all four sides. The paintbrush is controlled by using the cursor keys. The game can be aborted prematurely with <ESC>. Be careful not to touch the snackmonster, otherwise the game is lost instantly. You can beat the highscore if you solve the game as quickly as possible.

TIME MACHINE AND THE BOARD GAME
Aaah - Finally a guest again.
Our last visitors made a mess in the whole house 3 years ago. Look how you are dressed, you must be a time traveler of the past!

Put the showcases back in the right places, and I'll give you, my antique time machine for you to return to the present.Start your work on the 1st floor. The Bi-Fi product range is exhibited on the 5th floor.

WELCOME TO BI-FI FACTORY!
The high voltage game. In order to get the bi-fi roll started, you need to understand some of the circuits and get it right. Your task is to light a lamp for about 5 seconds continuously. Use the cursor keys to control the hand and the space bar to start a pulse.

On the left side of the board, you start the impulse, which then spread on the tracks.
Attention! The number of pulses is limited. When all the pulses are consumed without the lamp lit, the game is lost. A total of 5 circuits must be solved. If you are successful, Bi-Fi production will resume. There are some special features in the circuits. Get familiar with your function in the game:

Lamp
Switch
Battery
Pink pig
And gate
Or gate

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