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This is one of the classic games so far on the Amstrad. It's miles better than the C64 version and provides wonderfully colourful entertainment.

You control a sorcerer who has to release eight fellow sorcerers from traps around and inside a castle and chateau. Each of the eight sorcerers is released by a particular object which you can pick up, but both they and the objects can be located in tough places to get to The screens are populated by a nasty variety of monsters like ghosts, monks eyeballs and boars heads. These can be killed off using shooting stars or a sack of spells or particular weapons like swords and axes which may only kill one type of beast.

There are three things that may end your game: the time limit running out, running out of energy or drowning in a pool of water. The time limit is a book that gradually disappears pixel by pixel while your energy is sapped by monsters and can be replaced by sitting your sorcerer on a cauldron.

There are 40 screens and you get around them by flying in any direction. You get between screens by flying into doors that creak open to let you through.