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An adventure game with the unoriginal scenario of having to escape from an abandoned space station before your oxygen runs out. Instructions consist of two sides to aid the beginner entitled "What is an adventure", courtesy of P. Kemp (whoever he is!). Then some Quicksilva-type blurb which says about as much as my first sentence, and finally half a side of loading instructions - very apt because the program didn't load until my fourth try!

The instructions don't actually tell you how to play!! They don't say you must type "protein" - yes protein - instead of "pills"; they don't say you can type the first three letters of certain objects. I only found out by listing.

Yes, folks, it's written in Basic. Not that I hold this against anybody, but I agree with John Braithwaite (One Man's View, HCW 45): "Machine code, Basic or Chinese heiroglyphics, the buyer should be able to repeatedly load it, play it and enjoy it". It is far too slow to be enjoyable. Faster adventures can be written in Basic.

This comes from the same stable as Manic Miner, but is not of the same class: it is outstanding only in its mediocrity. As for why it's called McKensie, your guess is as good as mine.