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Adventures form a popular and expanding division of the game program market. The rate of development in this area has brought considerable sophistication - the disciples of the adventure cult expect it.

But this program does not have what it takes - or at least what it may have to offer is lost in crude presentation. Money has even been poorly spent on a misprinted inlay card! The loading logo is a poor advert too.

A wide vocabulary is boasted, but it was very easy to build up a screenful of "What did you say?" responses.

Even allowing for the reviewer's lack of experience in these games some responses would be difficult to guess at for a hardened adventure buff.

I appreciate that learning by experience is the way of these games, but there was ilttle encouragement to keep going.

Working purely from the location descriptions (no graphics) with no colour or sound and frustrating responses, tediously repeated, was hard going. The speed of execution was annoyingly slow.

100 locations are contained and the user would be wise to make maps and notes as advised. I was grateful for the hints sheet (available by SAE if you get desperate). Good intentions but uninspired presentation.

P.C.