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The Jewels Of Darkness is in fact three of Level 9's original adventures, revamped and repackaged together by Rainbird and sold for only £14.95.

These are the adventures that make Level 9's reputation as *the* UK adventurers. Now the classic Colossal Adventure, Adventure Quest and Dungeon Quest have been improved with the addition of Level 9's latest techniques including over 600 illustrations (200 per adventure), 1,000 word vocabulary including useful words like 'all' and 'everything', and Ramsave and Oops! commands to restore your game position should you come to an untimely end. All this as well as a 64 page novella are included in the package.

Colossal Adventure is a version of the original game that started it all. In it you must find the Colossal Caves where your quest for treasure begins.

Adventure Quest is set hundreds of years later. You are an apprentice magician and you have been caled before the Wizard's High Council. Here you hear the Demon Lord and how one man (you) might be able to collect the four 'stones of the elements' and gain entry to his Black Tower. They assure you that a full attack is to be launched but somehow you doubt it.

Whatever good intentions you had in Adventure Quest, they have all disappeared for the final adventure. No noble quest awaits; instead you are driven by greed. You think the Demon Lord is dead and race to get to the booty before anyone else has the same idea. So, armed to the teeth, you head off.

Unfortunately, a spell hits you and ruins your plans as suddenly you find yourself lying, half-drowned on the edge of a river. Now you have to face the Dungeons of the Demon Lord alone and unarmed.

Points can be scored in each of the adventures but for different reasons. In Colossal Adventure collecting treasure is the name of the game as indeed it is in Dungeon Adventure; however, in Adventure Quest, you score more points the closer you get to the Tower.

You can play each adventure separately, or as the ultimate challenge tackle them all in sequence transferring your points from one game to the next.

Although The Jewels Of Darkness is a compilation of old games, it is still a must for all adventurers who are missing one or more of these classics. The plots are timeless and the games' graphics and parser are state of the art; as for the adventures themselves, they'll still challenge the best.