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Camelot is the latest in the Gumboot series of Colour Quest text adventures. On loading you find yourself in a large plain with Mount Cader Idris towering above you. Inspection of the landscape reveals a mountain shack guarded by a rather unpleasant creature. Disposal of this creature requires quite a lot of thought and travel to find the necessary equipment but, hopefully, you succeed and soon find some useful objects and clues to decipher.

With the aid of one of the clues, you soon discover some mysterious places to explore, including a maze of caverns containing treasure and the castle of Camelot itself complete with lots of rooms, traps for the unwary, useful objects to manipulate and more treasure - but I haven't been able to discover what to do with it in order to complete the game. Nor have I been able to decipher one of the clues I found near the beginning.

Things are not made any easier as, if one spends too long in one place, the light fails and then the situation gets very dangerous indeed. Requests for AID don't elicit a lot of help; the Adventurer is merely told to examine everything closely and use logic! Still, this is what adventuring is all about - there is no point making it too easy!

I think that anyone who likes adventures would enjoy this game. It is well written with good descriptions and quite a few touches of humour. Certainly very good value for money.

Hint: Have you tried GO ARCHWAY in the passage in the castle? Also, the Eagle's nest is there for more than one purpose! The necessary command to see how well you are doing is SCORE (and not POINTS!) in this adventure. This is, of course, just to keep you confused.