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Written by Harvey Ladder and Nigel Brooks, Quest For The Golden Eggcup is a zany romp, in which you are given your quest by the highest authority - God!

He appears before you ("Hello, I'm God," he says) and commands you to retrieve his stolen eggcup, or be turned into an egg and eaten for breakfast.

"Probably poached," he adds.

After all, I imagine a soft-boiled egg is none too easy to tackle without an eggcup - even if you are omnipotent. Mind you, not that God is over chuffed with his omnipotence - throughout the game he is prone to turn up and whine about it not being all it is cracked up to be.

This adventure has superb graphics, full of detail and colour. Remember the instant graphics on UK conversions of Scott Adams adventures, generally reckoned to be among the best on cassette at the time? These are better, certainly on the Spectrum version which I played. They display instantaneously - there is none of that blinking flicker, from which Adventure International/Adventure Soft games used to suffer. They are the work of ex-Ram Jam graphic artist Simon Dunston, who Smart Egg enlisted for this and future projects.

From Smart Egg, the people who brought you Rigel's Revenge, comes this professionally produced, totally irreverent and comic adventure, that doesn't offend, at a wonderful price!