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The NeverEnding Story II (DOS)

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Title Screen

The NeverEnding Story II

Developer: LinEL
Publishers: LinEL, Merit Software
Platform: DOS
Released in US: 1991
Released in EU: 1991


DevMessageIcon.png This game has a hidden developer message.
DevTextIcon.png This game has hidden development-related text.


Bastian must explore the word of Fantasia, while being careful to not making too many wishes or he will lose his memories.

Developer Message

Inside a file named STORY3 is a hidden message. It can be found by decompressing the file with a suitable LZ91 decompressor and opening the decompressed file with a hex editor at 0x14CD9.

If Motorhead moved in next door to you,...... your lawn would die!

Another Ste Cork Creation, but what a sod to write!

Don't work for LINEL, it's lousy money, flies everywhere, the whole 
place stinks of shit - human and cattle -, there's NOTHING to do but work, 
no TV or anything, no pubs, nowhere to go, no car - 
despite what he tells you, you're always hungry, 
'phoning home costs you nearly all your wages, 
if you need medical treatment you're in trouble 'cos you're working 
there without a permit, your wages are late EVERY month,

I could go on but I've only got 640k ram after all.

Gary Numan Lyrics

After that message, there appears to be the lyric snippets from multiple songs by Gary Numan:

  • "Do Your Best"
  • "Jump"
  • "Down In The Park"
  • "Tubeway Army"

According to programmer Ste Cork, he'd sneak Gary Numan lyrics into games.[1]

see my eyes, and the tongue of a killer, I'm a humanoid logic machine....
I could not find the file '$' anywhere, sorry.
The way out seems so simple now in the cold, cold light of day
Down In The Park with a friend called 5.
Picture - Eyes in a cold steel frame. The freaks arrive, broken 
needles and blood,"Oh! what you on Man to get those eyes?"

References