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Everyone today is aware of the problems of drug abuse, in particular, heroin addiction. It comes as no surprise then that sooner or later, an adventure would appear that tackles one aspect of this very important topic.

Operation Stallion is such an adventure. Your task is to break up a heroin smuggling ring - so well put together that the normal forces of law and justice are totally ineffective. The scene is therefore set, and as the killer arm of an agency which operates outside of the law, it is now up to you to destroy the smuggling ring within a mere seventeen hours.

The adventure begins back at your headquarters, where, in the privacy of your own office, you begin the game by finding some useful accessories which will help you later. Suddenly the phone rings (in fact, it was so realistic that my wife actually went to answer it!) and upon answering, your immediate superior, the mysterious "CJ", summons you to the conference room for a briefing on your mission.

Once there, you are informed of your task, and led to a small room, where from a choice of 20 various weapons and aids, you are allowed to select a number of them to take with you.

At this point Part 1 of the game is concluded, and you must save your position to load into Part 2.

Here you begin your task in earnest - to penetrate the mansion which is the nerve centre of the operation.

It was about here in the game that I became aware of some very serious shortcomings. Some of the simplest commands were not recognised, and it was extremely hard convincing what I wanted to do.

Perhaps of even greater importance is the time limit. Each move ticks six minutes up on the clock, and you only have those seventeen hours to begin with. Even if you type in total rubbish which the program has no chance of interpreting, another six minutes are lost!

Still, Operation Stallion is not too bad. If you can live with its idiosyncrasies, rewards can be yours.