Stanley: The Search for Dr. Livingston magic inside this temple is believed to grant its founder amazing wisdom and power. Ghosts and demons haunt the temple making it a tricky venture for any explorer. The player, as reporter Henry Morton Stanley (after Sir Stanley, 1841-1904), is exploring the last of the mysterious jungle regions for European colonization when his professor, Dr. Livingston (patterned after Dr. David Livingstone, with an ending "e"), gets kidnapped by some African tribesmen. Now, the player must explore one of the last uncharted parts of Africa to save his mentor and end an era of exploring Africa. The player is automatically equipped
Colonization of the Congo buying sovereignty in exchange for bolts of cloth and trinkets; playing one tribe off another; and if need be, simply shooting an obstructive chief and negotiating with his cowed successor instead. However, as he approached Stanley Falls at the junction between the Congo proper and the Lualaba (close to the general vicinity of Central Africa where he had found Livingstone six years before), it soon became clear that Stanley's men were not the only intruders. Tippu Tip, the most powerful of the Zanzibari slave traders of the 19th century, was well-known to Stanley, as was the social chaos and devastation