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Outside the castle walls a terrible electric storm rages, while inside Frankenstein's bride begins a frantic struggle to bring her horrible husband back to life by finding some of his more important vital organs that have been secreted about the castle's 60 rooms.

The game starts with a view of Franky still plugged into the mains in the lab at the top of the castle tower. Before you can help him, you must locate his lungs, heart, liver, kidneys and a working brain. To locate these delights you will need to rob the odd grave, open a crypt or two and pop into the butchers... So a spade and pickaxe will be essential, not to mention a lamp to help you negotiate certain parts of the castle devoid of light.

Of course, in the best traditions of Frankenstein, many of the rooms in the castle are mysterious locked but seven different keys may help you in your quest. Various ghosts and killer skeletons, however will not.

A jar containing the elixir of life will gradually be drained as you wander from room to room, so one of your first tasks is to find a refill.

The colourful and well designed action is seen from an elevated side view and gives a 3D feel by the presence of the front walls of each room. Unfortunately, although this gives the game more depth than the average arc-adv, it also means that you can be attacked by ghoulies that have no respect for the fact that you may be unable to see what's going on behind the front wall.

However, this aside, Bride Of Frankenstein is an attractive and playable game with enough problem solving to make you want to get further and further into it. Definitely one that all arcade adventure lovers should check out and promises to be a reasonable challenge to all mapping addicts, especially as the castle layout is reversed when a certain room is visited!