Access the yellow key on Doom 64 map 18, Spawned Fear (original) (raw)

To get the yellow key on level 18, Spawned Fear:

Once you have the red key, go through the red-keyed door and take the path that curves sharply around to your right. Search the bookcases on your left to open up a hidden passage. Walk up the stairs to a big, open, irregularly shaped area. There's one ground-level switch right around the corner to the right. Activate that to drop a platform, then Run to get on the platform before it rises again. When you're at the top you'll find another switch; Activate it to drop another nearby platform. Get on it and ride up. Activate the switch you'll find there, and a final platform will drop nearby; jump down and Run to get on it. When you're at the top you'll see another switch. Activate this and the ground will shake to indicate a change in the map. Now jump down and follow the right-hand wall till you come to another ground-level switch. Activate that to reveal a Soul Sphere nearby. From there, walk ahead and look for a structure that, on your map, looks vaguely like a backwards 7 or backwards capital L, depending on how your map is oriented. On one end of this will be an open door. This door lets you walk up some steps and into a little chamber ahead where you can see a switch. Activate that switch to drop a nearby platform, and quickly step back away from the switch and turn left, and jump down to the platform before it rises up again. Once you get to the platform and it rises, Run forward and to the right, and you should see a switch close by in a small cul-de-sac. Activate this switch and turn around. Nearby you'll see a place you can jump down into. This place is where a series of tunnels come to an end, and the tunnel floors are lined with corrosive slime, so be careful here... Jump down in, and turn to face down the corridor. Ahead of you, some tunnels branch off to the left and right. Two tunnels branch off to the right; take the left-most of these 2 right-hand tunnels. This leads into a short dead-end passage, at the end of which is Radiation Shield which you'll need here. Grab it and walk back out, hugging the right-hand wall. Continue to carefully follow the right-hand wall around the contours of this area until you come to some steps. Walk up steps and follow the path till you come to a gap in the path ahead. Back up to get a running start (hold down your Run button) and Run across this gap. Continue on till you come to another gap. You should see the yellow key up ahead of you. Again, back up and get a running start to Run across the gap and onto the raised area where the yellow key is. You may have to attempt this jump more than once. Using a combination of Run-plus-Strafe works well (it makes you run slightly faster, and therefore you can jump slightly farther), but this can be tricky, as it moves your player character at an odd angle. (Check your Doom 64 manual and/or your controller setup in the game's Options menu if you need more information on Run and Strafe functions.) Once you have the yellow key, hug the right-hand wall and Run until you come back to your original starting point (the ceiling overhead will be open to the sky). Look left for a slightly yellow-tinted panel. Activate it like a switch, and this wall section drops, allowing you to get on and ride back up, and out. Done!

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