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Here is a cheap and cheerful cassette adventure, that is operated by word-icons. The joystick controls a highlight that is moved across a window of verbs, and depending upon the one chosen, the highlight moves to a list of inventory objects, a list of characters present, or the narrative text window, for selection of the rest of the command.

There are graphics at some locations, which are displayed in another window. In non-graphic locations, a text description fills the graphics area instead.

The plot is the rather mundane pseudo-mythological one of hero-magician called to rescue a dying king's son, the only person capable of fighting forces of evil and saving the land.

The verb list is larger than that offered in most current icon adventures, 36 in all, although some are system verbs, and others are near duplicates. No need to grope for an elusive word, or a subtle command though, for they are all there to see. Nevertheless, not bad for the price, and worthy of a recommendation for C64 adventurers who do not have a disk drive.