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In the never-ending race to join the computer games market, the software houses, as everyone knows, are adopting an attitude of "if it's got computer game written on it, publish it". If it goes on at this rate, in six months time we can expect to fork out half a dozen hard-earned oncers on something that adds two and two together.

Legion isn't quite that bad - you've got to give it points for trying. It's an adventure, it's in Basic and it's about as amusing as eating dead cats. Naturally, they've gone a great job on the cassette inlay. Look at all those words: 'examine', 'smell' and 'wait'. Looks great on the shelf... but wait 'til you get it home. All those lovely words displayed so alluringly elicit a useful response of "eh?". In fact, apart from "you can't do that", "eh?" is the only response it does give. The icing on the cake is a thoroughly unimaginative set of descriptions and a particularly nasty reference to the talking habits of women, something an intelligent author should be above.

All in all, rather silly and a waste of everyone's time and effort, small though it might have been.