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Being a little slow, and decidedly unsuccessful in adventures, I was not looking forward to attempting this one.

After reading the small list of instructions, my immediate thoughts were "Instructions? Sounds more like threats to me!"

Haunted Abbey is a purely text adventure in which your objective is to find Phibe's Book of Incantations, and pick up a few treasures to boost the score.

When you are playing this game remember the three golden rules for adventures, don't rush, don't die. and don't think that because you have a sharp sword you can kill just about any type of monster your Beeb can manage to contrive, because you can't.

After about two hours of disobeying the rules I managed to enter the Abbey. Once you are inside the creepy building the fun begins, and there are numerous locations, red herrings and puzzles.

If you are not a born adventurer either, but feel that with a bit of practice you can get somewhere, then I would say this is your first rung on a very long ladder to the top.

M.B.