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This game is unusual in that it effectively uses video games within a video game.

Jones is an employee at a hotel which has 18 rooms arranged on three floors, linked by a lift. The initial screen shows the doors to the rooms and the lift in side elevation.

Jones is a rather slothful being who would rather play computer games than work. Most of the rooms contain a computer on which he can play. The idea is to guide him from room to room so that he can play each game. He must evade people and objects on the corridors of the hotel.

Each sub-game is shown on a small screen roughly two inches square. The games are pretty representations of real games and you can make a score on them. Your overall score is the sum of scores achieved on each sub-game. Once you have visited all the rooms, you start again but it's all a bit tougher.

I found the concept great fun but the novelty soon wore off and I was left playing a game which was low on challenge and somehow unsatisfying.

A.W.