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Imagine the scene; you're in the Wild West, the Indians are sending smoke signals between the hills while horsedrawn stage coaches pass along the roads. During the night the Indians took your cloths, rifle and girlfriend. The next morning you wake up and must collect your possessions while avoiding the oncoming arrows, lances, tomahawks, snakes, cacti and Indians.

The game is based upon a number of different screens. On each one you must collect a different article before you may continue onto the next. The background graphics are good although the foreground moving characters could do with a little more attention to detail - it's a pity they spoil the game.

One of the features that the gaem boasts is speech. Every now and again it keeps stopping play and saying something such as "Wild Indians". For some reason I cannot understand most of the words that it comes out with - perhaps I'm getting old and deaf! After a while you will get sick of listening to it and turn the sound down anyway so I don't suppose that this is much of a bad point.

I found the game was quite playable and despite all of the wrong key pressing and attempts to crash the program I will have to announce that it is bugfree.

The cassette cover claims fast loading of the program. I did not find it any faster than normal and it certainly did not use any special turboloader. Loading was not very reliable either.

K.I.