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If the word Ni uttered by a shadowy creature with antlers means anything to you then you are probably too busy drawing your pension to be bothered to read this.

Shortly after the time of King Arthur, a TV programme revoltionised modern comedy in the way that the Goon Show had a decade earlier. The Monty Python series spawned several movies, one of which told the tale of the Knights of King Arthur and the Holy Grail. Now Mastertronic bring you the computer adventure of the film of the lie (sorry, legend).

The appearance of the game owes a lot to The Hobbit, even though the language comprehension is not as sophisticated as Inglish but at such a bargain price what can you expect?

Starting from the blacksmith's forge, you set out in search of the Holy Grail after overpowering an extremely vicious CND nut whose skill at the art of pacifism knows no bounds. Skilfully avoiding Eugene the Peasant and his Vic-20, you eventually arrive at Camelot. Wiser fools than I will poke around the countryside a bit before venturing inside to face the perils of the French guard and his disgusting nasal excretions (known as the green death).

The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch awaits elsewhere plus the deadly clutches of the cesspit, the three-headed knight and the aforementioned knight who says Nik.

Having a mental age of 4.36 is a serious drawback for our hero and the fact that the computer's gone into a huff does nothing for the Help facility. You really are on your own in this strange world of yore. Try to quit and the computer responds in the negative arguing that if you want to quit why did you buy the game in the first place?!

The adventure is very pleasant to play considering some of the unpleasant characters that you meet and being turned into bath salts by Nik the Knight doesn't happen too often, but beware of the explosive white rabbit.

The Holy Grail is a desirable object but I never realised before that it was actually a computer tape!