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Why do I always get the worst games to review? The grave error of judgement I was forced to play this month is called Serpent From Hell.

The plot printed on the cassette inlay has a very suspect feel about it. The main idea is that the world is about to be destroyed by an evil force called Goroth, the Serpent From Hell. You, being the last remaining Knight of the Round Table, have to find the sword Excalibur and destroy Goroth.

It may be a good idea to quote from a legend, but when you get two of them muddled up and then produce a bad game, it's asking for trouble!

The program is written in a mixture of Basic and machine code, so the responses are quite fast, but the vocabulary lets the game down.

Graphics are to be found in the game, but to me these were so slow and boring that they seemed a complete waste of time and memory.

Serpent From Hell is for the 48K Spectrum, priced £1.99, but only worth the cassette it is recorded on.

Avoid this at all costs!