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Another high standard Program Power game. Cassette presentation is very good and instructions are quite adequate. As the game loads we can hear spooky music and the screen display changes colour, making the long loading much more interesting.

Starting at the bottom, the idea is to reach the top and enter the next room of the creepy mansion. During your trip you have to eat titbits to gain extra points, avoid poison-smeared spikes and bouning spiders. Your journey is made more difficult by moving platforms, contracting floorboards and powerful springs. If you think that sounds easy, there's a time limit and, if you fail to reach the top, you shrivel up into a little pile.

Graphics are very good indeed. The slightest things have been thought of. When you die, the ghost who chases you around the screen smiles. For levels have to be accomplished before you gain an extra life. The first three are deadly, but the fourth... who knows?

Addictive and exciting. An interesting feature is that, when you lose a life, the screen moves away sideways and reappears in a spin to the centre.

D. B.