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Designed as an educational adventure for children and programmed by the education specialists Five Ways Software you might expect a great deal from this. It is well packaged and the box contains the cassette, instructions and a poster which includes a code-breaking chart.

You can play the part of Quick-lizard who awakes from a dream to find that all the people of his village have disappeared and so has the sun.

You are given a view of your surroundings in a three dimensional perspective and can forward or turn in either direction. All the possible options are placed on the number keys and a keyboard template supplied.

If you pick up an object, it is shown on the right of the screen which is a nice touch. If you find a compass, the direction that you are facing is indicated on the compass and this changes as you turn around.

The speed of the graphics is slow but this is only a minor problem. The instructions are only fair, there is a buzz every so often but nowhere is this explained or mentioned.