Adventures come in all manner of scenarios, whether it's finding treasures in underground caves, searching some alien planet or objects or prevent the destruction of Earth or looking for a good old pint down at the local. In The Beer Hunter it is the latter that we are indeed looking for.

At first I thought I was suffering from an 'Hangover' when, on loading I was greeted by the opening text screen, written in two colours on a salmon pink background, it gave a sort of 3D effect, you know, the type where you need to wear those little red and green lensed glasses, except there were no glasses with this game, so I went a bit bog-eyed trying to read the printing, I am glad to say the main text in the game is normal white on blue.

OK, so what about the adventure itself, well your quest begins in the outside public loo, on the wall is some obscene graffiti and a 'horrible smell wafts towards you' going North finds you outside the good old 'Hung Ferret' notable drinking hole of the local Yar Yar Robyns and Horray Henrys, waking a drunk will reveal a lot and then it's off for a quick hug with the barmaid beore starting your search in earnest. Before your quest is over you will have travelled the length and breadth of London, visited some devious drinking establishments and, if unlucky, been cast into a rather dingy cell.

The author's first attempt at writing an adventure is reasonable, written with tongue firmly in cheek he succeeds in taking a hefty swipe at the 'establishment' full of innuendos (a car park full of XR3's etc), the game jobs along quite merrily. I think he captured one typical characters attitude when, on entering the Barbican, I found myself in the "Whiz-Bang Computer Show" calling at the bar, I found it was full of loud people, who were all trying to get served, by a long haired youth, wearing a white jacket and trying as hard as possible to be as slow as possible... a type I'm sure we have all met before.

The test descriptions tend to be a bit over the top and the odd spelling mistake doesn't help, graphics are instantly drawn and quite pleasant to look at, overall then, the adventure is well written, problems are not difficult and, if you like nonsense games, quite good fun.

My only complaint is that the game should have been tested better before it was released and, in these days of good budget adventures, is about £3-£4 too much.