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This adventure is released by Tynesoft, but written by those well known characters from Adventure International, Brian Howarth and Mike Woodroffe, who recently wrote Gremlins.

This adventure follows very closely the format used with Gremlins, down to the same style split screen graphics and text display.

As I took my first steps as Super Gran, I found myself in the town of Chisleton on a quest to recover the Mayor's chain of office and a valuable art treasure, stolen by Scunner Campbell, and his bunch of cronies.

With some help from a younger cousin who was really into Super Gran, I soon found myself outside Scunner Campbell's house, where cries for help were coming from an upstairs window.

This, I thought, would be the trigger that would send Super Gran leaping into action and save whoever was in distress! But absolutely nothing happened!

I just knew that somehow Super Gran could use that pole to vault up into the window, but how? I was just about to call it a day when I found VAULT POLE worked, and there I was standing inside Scunner Campbell's bedroom.

Despite the startling difficulties, all was not lost, for at this point the adventure started to show its true class. As the plot unfolds, it places one puzzle after another in your path. Finding the right answer may mean a lot of running about, and getting your timing just right.

The puzzles are of an easy level, and best suited to young adventurers or perhaps those looking for a small, fun adventure to help while away a few hours. After a shaky start, I found it very enjoyable to play, even though it does not contain the type of puzzles that take months to solve.

The graphics are of the same high standard as those seen in Gremlins, and the text input allows for more than one command to be entered on one line. The whole thing is rounded off with a light hearted sense of humour.

Super Gran: The Adventure is available for the Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad, with full colour graphics and animation, and in text only for the BBC, Electron and Commodore 16.