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Ait-Amar, the daughter of Sultan Abdul Aziz, has been kidnapped by a group of guerrillas. The guerrillas want a big ransom or else they will kill Ait-Amar. You play as Ben-Yussef, captain of the Sultan's army and you have three days to find Ait-Amar. By your contacts you have been told that Ait-Amar is hold captured in a city named Kashba, but you do not know where.

The city has 12 districts and you have to contact people to get help to locate Ait-Amar. Some of the districts are hostile and people will shoot at you, and if you ask any of them for help they will give you false clues …so don’t ask for help in districts where people shoot at you.

You will have to find a place called “Armeria” where you can buy weapons, because you will need a better weapon to complete your mission. Your health is not unlimited so depending on how long time you need to find Ait-Amar you might need to visit a restaurant and a hotel.

The men you meet will either give you right / false clues or shoot at you.
Women will not talk but some of them might give you money.
Policemen: shoot them because they will chase you and take your weapons if they catch you.
Big guys: Ait-Amar is in one of the houses they protect, and they have to be shot.

The idea of this might be good and the game is well made with nice graphic, but after you have found the weapon shop the game ends up in a lot of wandering around, and hoping that it is the right place you kill the big guy and enters the building, because if you are told to go north to find Ait-Amar you will find lots of buildings in the north, and if you pick the wrong place you will have no more ammo and health when you come out again.

Ait-Amar is randomly placed for every game, the city is huge and it is hard to figure out where you are, so it is just pure luck if you succeed in finding her.

This version has got AY music added by OHG.

The game was published by Topo Soft in 1988.

Rating:
Original 48k version: 65%
Unofficial 128k version: 70%

If you do not have Beta Disk / TR-dos this version can also run on ZX Spectrum Next and emulators. The game can run on a standard ZX Spectrum 128k with tape recorder if someone changes the loading routine to tape format.

48k tape: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games/t/Tuareg.tap.zip
128k Beta Disk / TR-dos: https://vtrd.in/gamez/t/TUAR_OHG.ZIP