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The final part of the Korth Trilogy from Puffin featuring the novel concept (no pun intended) of a book to read and a tape to play games from.

As in part one, our intrepid hero persons Kane, Louis and Xenia get themselves into tricky situations, two of which are reproduced as games.

Fog has friends and foes appearing out of the 'fog' of a blank screen to be zapped at will, Oldren is very, very similar to Raid contained in the first pack, and Empire is a simple economic simulation giving your child the chance to run an empire.

As before, lack of error trapping makes the games stop abruptly, Basic makes them run slowly, and there appears to be a bug in Empire.

I cannot honestly enthuse over the contents of this pack, though it's undeniably good value. The concept however is good, and given an imaginative plot, the mixture of computer game and good book could be a winner.

Perhaps Puffin should use some existing best sellers and commission a software house to write the games?

D.M.