Epic Hero #3, Venus Must Live: Experiments in Life

(Continued from my previous post.) I haven’t made real progress in terms of events happening, but I did manage to get more objects to do something, so it seems worth an update. Exploration across the inventory space rather than the locational space, so to speak. Actual pictures of Venus from the Ventura 14 probe, front and back cameras. Via The Planetary Society and Ted Stryk. First, most straightforwardly, I figured out how to operate the boots: you need to JUMP UP (as opposed to just JUMP) while wearing them. This will allow you to scale the cliff up to a ledge. Another Leduc cameo. I don’t know if he keeps this going through all his games. If you wait long enough he plugs his game Epic Hero 4, Camelot. This was written, but for the Colour Genie adventure series instead of the TRS-80 one. Unfortunately, this only reveals the one new single room above. The small hole is not the kind you can enter, but the kind you can put things in. I know this because PUT ITEM then prompts “IN…