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A day in the life of Uncle Clive is the story line but Micromega never actually mentions this. The game is of the Horace type with large coloured shapes moving freely about the screen. Clive has been made Dame Commander of the British Empire and today's the day when he receives the honour from the palace.

You start in Clive's house and must guide him to get his suit and then a key to let him out. All this must be achieved whilst avoiding cats, bugs and flying television sets! Once outside the game continues in the same vein for the next 20 screens, taking Clive to the railway station, the pub, a wine bar and finally the Palace itself. All the while Clive must pick up certain objects on each screen in order that he may move onto the next one. The graphics, as I mentioned, are large and move very smoothly. Control is by keyboard or joystick and the keys can be redefined if necessary.

Sound consists of an annoying little tune that thankfully can be switched off! The instructions are very clear and funny with repeated references to running a craft show in the Outer Hebrides (cont p94).

Finally the game loads under a special loading system that has blocks, if a block fails to load then the tape may be rewound to the beginning of the block and another attempt made, rather than having to do the whole tape again!

J.G.D.