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This program gives little incentive to leave T'Rovers and go home to your Spectrum. It is a competent version of the classic pub game, but sadly lacks the welcome chink of glasses and other atmospherics.

The author has remembered that domino novices still exist and good instructions are included on the easy-loading cassette. "Wait a moment," ordered the computer and, 30 seconds later, I was sat in front of 13 dominoes, dealt by my opponent, the Spectrum, who duly promised to forget them!

Specifying which dominoes I wanted to play was easy, but telling the computer where to place them was another matter - for reasons best known to himself, the author has done away with the familiar right-angled shapes produced during a game and invented an unnecessarily complicated system of his own!

This distracted from the playability of a game whose very subject matter is not the most exciting. Nevertheless, the Spectrum is a good opponent and the score is currently 4-2 in its favour.

T.B.