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You're walking along the M5, when a Pink Panther in a pink C5 runs you over and kills you stone dead. All is black around you, when a shaft of light appears, and in it, an old man wearing a turban. "Hello, I'm God," he says. He sits down to the strains of a haunting piano melody, and lights up a mild cigar. After blowing several smoke rings, he gives you a quest to perform.

It seems his golden eggcup has been stolen, and your task is to find and return it to him. If not, he'll turn you into an egg, and eat you, probably poached. So saying, he claps his hands and vanishes in a puff of black greasy smoke.

You now find yourself in a golden temple, and there's little peace as you try to find your way about the place. God has the habit of materialising and making comments to interrupt your thoughts - like: "Being omnipotent isn't all that it's cracked up to be." When he isn't philosophising, chances are he'll materialise a solid oak stone tablet, and instead of getting on with things, you'll probably spend hours examining it, reading it, and doing all sorts of things to it and with it for which it was never intended. Then there's Dandalf and Thoron constantly popping in and out, and making inane comments. Should you do anything about them, or are they just part of the scenery?

Before long, you find yourself armed with all sorts of strange objects, including a turban (perhaps it is the one God was wearing?) a golden robe, clipboard, jeans, slippers, magic beans, and an under-the-bed-object, which is sure to turn out very useful, if only you could decide what for.

A genuinely humorous game, this is Smart Egg's first original adventure, and for £1.99 it's a must. It has bright, pleasing-to-look-at, and instant colour, graphics, a RAMLOAD and RAMSAVE facility, and a suitably holy character set.

It is nice to see low-priced quality adventures on cassette, and this one is every bit as good as Smart Egg's first Mastertronic release, Rigel's Revenge. Go out and buy one!