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Your task: seek and destroy Frankenstein's monster and return to the inn - in one piece.

Display is in mode 7, colour is used to good effect and machine code makes responses very fast.

Like all adventures, it helps to make a map which is quite easily done. A few tunnel mazes need a care but are not difficult. After a few hours I had scored over 2,000 out of an 8,000 total and had made four maps.

There were a few frustrating aspects - you are not given any obvious exits and need to try all possibilities which, in some cases, leads to death. So save the game before moving when you reach such stages.

Some responses are annoying by not allowing you to remove articles which, in normal circumstances, would be perfectly accessible. Such quirks are often found in adventures. There are no bugs but there are inconsistencies in the logic.

The insert says it is disc-compatible but downloads itself in memory before running so that save game feature defaults to tape - a minor inconvenience for disc users.

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