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Set in an American town that was abandoned after the Californian gold rush, Ghost Town is an adventure in which your task is to find a deserted gold mine, and return to town with the contents.

But, before you set off, you will need various items of equipment that are scattered about the town. Commands are entered in one of three formats: two-word sentences (OPEN DOOR, GET GUN and so on), single words (QUIT, INVENTORY) or letters (N, S).

If the cassette inlay had not included a screen picture, I would probably not have known that this was a graphic adventure.

There's a short machine code routine that enables drawings to be done in the background colour and displayed instantly on completion. This didn't seem to work too well in my review copy, and most of the locations were represented by a blank screen.

It's a mainly Basic program and, although some simple protection devices are used, it's quite easy to break into it to see how it works - despite the warning in the listing that "Cheating doesn't help"!