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This would be an ideal opportunity to warn you all of the insidious practice of panning-and-scanning widescreen films for television and video, but ST Format is a computer magazine, so that's the end of that. Last Crusade is the game-of-the-film with Sean Connery bringing down a Nazi aeroplane using only an umbrella, and is, to dispense with impact-softening prose, preliminary dithering and pointless, flowery wibble. In fact, to put it bluntly, it's a platform game.

The action takes place over four levels as you pursue various Indiana Jones type prizes - priceless japes, lost morals, hidden meanings, that sort of thing. Unforgivably, Indy's famous whip is reduced to a cameo role, with his less well-known fists playing a much larger part in fighting the villains.

Aside from the novelty of seeing Indy squeezed into a scout's uniform and watching the screen get darker as your torch burns out, Last Crusade has little to commend it. The game speed is just the wrong side of the nut-the-keyboard slow, and you'll pop your clogs with alarming regularity as the enthusiastic Nazis refuse to line up nicely to be punched out - instead they shoot at you from across the screen. Things do not improve after this somewhat rocky start.

Boy-scout Indy is quite funny. Er, there are no sentient eggs in the game.

Boring old platform nonsense with all the lastability of the word "lastability" in an English essay.