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Evil professor Franzs Dandruff's rejuvenation experiments have gone seriously wrong and instead of becoming eternally young, he's ageing rapidly. The only way for him to restore his fading youth is to extract the bodily fluids from a virginal young lady to replace his own. Unfortunately, he's kidnapped Pearly, the girl of Flimbo's dreams, and in ojnly twelve hours he plans to throw the switch and suck her dry.

Between Flimbo and Dandruff's castle are seven sideways-scrolling levels crawling with the products of Dandruff's failed genetic experiments. Certain creatures (indicated in a panel at the foot of the screen) are carrying letters from a password and, to complete each level, Flimbo has to shoot these creatures, collect the letter and take it to the local wizard's Password and Extra Weapons Emporium. When the wiz has the whole word (they're actually machine code mnemonics) he lets you into the next bit.

As I've already mentioned, the wizard also sells extra bits to help Flimbo's quest. Collect the cash from dead beasts or a secret treasure room and you can buy a better weapon, extra time, an immunity potion, a password letter or even the whole code (which saves a lot of time but costs a lot of money).

This is quite a departure for System 3 - agame without ninjas or machine guns! Obviously they've decided to go for a console-esque look and feel in the hope of capturing some console playability, and unlike so many other software publishers, they're succeeded!

The graphics are stylish and cartoony, the gameplay is simple yet very, very addictive, and they've even crowbarred in Mario Brothers-type treasure rooms and hidden bonuses to make things even more interesting.

If you're currently lamenting the lack of decent, original software on the C64 then Flimbo's Quest is a game you absolutely must get your hands on.

This version boasts clearer graphics and a slightly more tuneful soundtrack of course, but apart from those differences Amiga Flimbo's Quest is the same as the C64 version, just as playable, just as addictive.