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Red Alert

DOS - 1996

A very rare promotional game for Johnnie Walker's Scotch Whisky released in 1996, I'll quote Benjamin who contributed this gem:

I have a copy of an obscure game called Johnnie Walker’s Red Alert from 1996 that I would love to share - yet I cannot find anything about it online!

My dad was a fan of Star Trek point and click adventure games of the 1990s and this one is similar – it was released on floppy disk bundled with a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red Label whiskey as a promotion of sorts.

You play a crewman who wakes from sleep aboard a spacecraft; the captain is dead and a bomb is set to blow in 90 minutes. Your challenge is a series of puzzles navigating the ship’s computer to try to defuse the bomb for a chance to win real prize money (at the time!).

I have a soft copy of the game, along with two photos of the front and rear cardboard case and the whisky barcode number password that is required to begin the game. It all fits into a 2MB zip file and runs via an MS-DOS emulator such as DOS-Box.

You will need a code to play the game: 5000267014203.

Comments and reviews

AmandaD84 08 Mar. 2026

Years ago I tried searching for this game and couldn't find out anything, felt like the other commentor who thought they had dreamed up the whole game, I never managed to cut the correct wire so its annoyed me my whole life, I have also memorised the barcode of Johnnie walker to this day I remember it!

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dosgamer 25 Oct. 2025

Thanks for sharing, Benjamin!

We have fixed the version to run better under DOSBox. We also removed the "Barcode Protection".

https://archive.org/details/red-alert-johnny-walker-promotional

Feel free to host.

Regards!

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Rob 28 Sep. 2024

Wow - imagine seeing this here.
I was 10 when this came out, I remember getting up one weekend and sneaking into the office and peeling the floppy off a bottle of Johnny walker and then installing and playing.
Definitely finishable, the code is technically related to the promotion if I recall correctly…

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mic 26 Aug. 2024

fun fact: I was part of the team that developed this game – and YES it could be solved!

we never actually got a copy to play ourselves so this is literally the first time I've seen the final product... but I do remember hashing out how all the pieces fit together to solve the puzzle and defuse the bomb

fun times!

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Diode 13 Jun. 2024

I was given a copy of this game. I was wondering if it was ever actually solvable with smarts, or it was just luck beating the game based off entering a winning code put in play it.
Maybe the developer can tell us if it was ever actually game to be solved, or just luck.

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MADMIC 10 Nov. 2023

Hi there what would this be worth nower days?

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Matt 24 Jun. 2023

This is amazing - had this as a kid and never finished it.

Been searching on and off for decades and the complete lack of any trace of it made me think I was completely imagining its' existence!

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jwhunter 12 Feb. 2023

Holy sh$&, I've been looking for a copy of this game for literally decades!

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Chris 23 Aug. 2022

I had this game. No idea when my parents bought JW but I had it on the old square boxy dos based computer

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Downloads

DOS version
Game file
United Kingdom English
2 MB

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