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This must be the quiz program to end all quiz programs - the package gives you five tapes or discs (40 track; three disc on track) containing four separate quizzes all about 30 years of pop music - 60,000 questions in a database of 720K.

The games themselves are quite simple: a trivia quiz, a musical hangman game, a general quiz (with extra clues if you're stuck) and a quiz about connections. All have available the most massive database and the level of knowledge needed for many questions is quite wide.

The disadvantage of having such a large database is the loading time - disc users will wonder if something has gone wrong with their BBC after two minutes of loading (makes one quite nostalgic for the early days of tapes!) and I dread to think how long tape users will have to wait. But the wait is worth it - the quizzes are superb!

Appealing obviously to the pop music buff, I do wonder slightly about this program's appeal to a more impulse purchase audience given the seemingly high price. A lot of work has gone into this program, however, and I think the price is fair.

Stumped myself many times on questions whose answers I should have known, I'm now hooked. There are so many possible questions that I haven't had any repeats yet and given the obscurity of many of them I wonder if I could recall the answers!

A shame that there is no sound but the Beeb's memory does have a limit! As an intellectual change from zapping, I recommend this game. Well done, Outlook - perhaps you'll release extra data discs for us addicts?