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Five epic Adventure games, each preluded by an arcade game, offered in the Eureka! package, together with a booklet. The Adventures can be played independently, but are linked and clues lead you from Adventure, to book, and back, in search of a mystery phone number. The first person to discover that will save the world from destruction and win £25,000 in cash as a bonus!

The Adventures are set throughout the ages. Starting off in Prehistoric Age, you progress through Ancient Rome, Celtic Britain and Wartime Germany to the Modern Caribbean. A talisman was discovered on the Moon, and under analysis, split. Five fragments disappeared, but have been traced to the places and times in which the Adventures are set. Your job is to find and return them, for if the talisman is not reconstituted, the moon is destined to explode, taking Earth with it!

Disregarding the prize, how do the games play?

First, the music and sound effects are spectacular! The Commodore uses the TV's loudspeaker and the bursts of music can only be described as triumphal!

Second, there are graphics and they are created in a most innovative way. There are "wide screen" pictures at some locations and smaller "cameos" at others.

Each Adventure has its own plot which, when solved, will lead you to a piece of the talisman. A single review could not do justice to this vast game and I can't attempt here to describe the other module I have tried, Celtic Britain, except to say that it follows the same style.

With or without the prize, this package has got to be terrific value.