Mission Om should give all Sword & Sorcery freaks another challenging adventure. Based on a now ageing theme, it offers differences which make it, in my opinion, worth buying.

As part of your initiation into the mastery of time and space, you have to find the password which will allow you to recover the symbolic crown of Om.

Once this is done, you can then learn the keyword which entitles you to wear the mission Om badge, which can be obtained from Spectresoft, along with their newsletter. (No kidding.)

To reach your goal, you will have to do battle with many enemies, chart your way through mystery hazards, find clues - the usual stuff.

When fighting, you can choose to fight with brute strength or with spells - though the spells are not guaranteed to work all the time!

All the typical adventure words are accepted in Mission Om, but what is not so typical is that it was possible to corrupt the lower part of the screen if you entered too many characters.

This aside, Mission Om will provide you with a lengthy challenge.