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Released by Creative Sparks under their budget Sparklers label, Merlin is best described as a sort of Medieval Jetpac. You play the part of Merlin (surprise, surprise) trying to overcome the combined forces of evil. Moving round the screen, you can attack these creatures with your spells, but beware! You must avoid the Hellwasp whose touch is lethal.

While destroying the nasties, you must concentrate on your concocting your potion. This you do by collecting such varied ingredients as skulls, frog legs and jewels from the bottom of the screen, and depositing them in a large cauldron in the middle of the screen. When you have successfully acquired all the objects you progress to the next level.

The main criticism of this game is that the colours are all very pale and consequently it is rather difficult to see the Hellwasp etc. Also, when you get killed, you tend to rematerialise in the middle of a crowd of nasties and so lose another life. But all in all, it's an average budget game and certainly playable albeit a little slow.