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Long long ago, far, far away there lived an eccentric scientist by the name of Dr. Joseph Vincent Agon. A recluse by nature, Agon could sometimes be seen through the arched windows of his great Victorian mansion, silhouetted against flickering candlelight.

Padlocked gates only added to the mystery surrounding this complicated, lonely man who became one of the world's greatest scientists as a result of his studies into the powers of the human mind.

Victorian society never fully understood the strange goings on behind those towering gates and nobody really noticed when Agon quietly disappeared and was never heard of or seen again.

Sealed up by his relatives, Agon's mansion has remained uninhabited while over a century of dust has gathered on the cold stone floors where once he stretched nature's patience to breaking point!

Now, as if pre-ordained, the rusted gates stand ajar as if the time had come for the world to discover just what happened all those years ago...

Just managing to squeeze through the gate you make your way to the imposing front door which creaks open almost before you grip the brass handle. Your attention is immediately drawn to a crack of light under a door at the far end of the hallway.

A spherical contraption sits at one end of the room facing a glowing mirror. A leatherbound diary lying on a nearby desk tells of a time machine called the Eidolon and of the strange journeys its creator, Dr Agon, made more than a century ago.

Seated in the Eidolon you ramp up the power. The mirror's glow becomes overwhelming as the Eidolon begins to vibrate. As you close your eyes, part of you wishes you hadn't been quite so curious, then...

How you got there you don't know, but you find yourself in an underground cave with branches heading off in every conceivable direction. Hovering just below the ceiling in front of you is a gold fireball.

As you move the Eidolon's control stick this way and that you move through the caves in any direction you please. The cave walls rush past your ears with such realism that this can't be a dream. You really are in a huge underground complex of caves, but for what purpose?

The contents of Agon's diary begin to make sense as you explore the strange new world.

As you collect gold fireballs, the Eidolon's energy reserve increases to maximum. You leave another gold fireball where it is but memorise its location in case you need it later.

The diary mentioned four types of fireball: red, gold, green and blue. They can be picked by the Eidolon with varying effects but can also be used against the many weird creatures Agon so vividly chronicled.

Rounding another bend you immediately wish you hadn't as you come face-to-face with a troll-like creature which is heading straight for you...

Pressing a button on the control panel causes a red fireball to be hurled towards a rather surprised troll which disappears almost as quickly as it came. In its place is a glowing jewel hanging in space. This too replenishes the Eidolon's energy and causes a red diamond-shaped display to light up.

The needle on another dial swings off the scale as you approach an awesome statue of a dragon, when suddenly the air is filled with a red shimmering. As you continue onwards the shimmering stops but the dragon is now moving towards you as if it was alive.

Quite hot, you may never know but a hail of red fireballs issue from the Eidolon hitting the dragon full in the chest and face. The last thing you remember is bits of ex-dragon whizzing past your head then everything going blank.

As the darkness clears you find yourself in another cave, more convoluted than the last one. Some kind of map would be useful, even indispensable, as it soon becomes obvious that navigating this new cave is next to impossible, even with a direction finder!

You still have the green and blue jewels you found in the last cave, but the red one seems to have disappeared - strange! Ahead is a blue fireball floating just like the others.

As you pass through the blue fireball the dashboard begins to flash and your notice the timer is frozen. Time seems to be coming in for a lot of bending and stretching you think to yourself. With seven caves to explore, a host of nasties to bash and the most terrifying many-headed dragon you are ever likely to see, The Eidolon is a winner.