Eureka! I know just what The Sorcerer's Apprentice felt like after all that wandage! He had a piteously sore wrist just like mine own after persevering through this merciless game. I carried on in a vain search for the clues needed to take on the adventure game that is a sibling cassette in this duo pack.

For those that knoweth not the olde tale, it goeth thusly: Whilst Merlin is out, his lazy apprentice uses magic to cheat on his cleaning chores. Merlin's spells go ape in the hands of the lad, and an uncontrolable army of living brooms drown Merlin's tasty gaff with dishwater.

Let me describe the "action". On yer left, brooms approach carrying pails of water towards screen right; a crudely-drawn vertical wall which is your dam. To win: protect your dam. The brooms will fill it with water and drown you, the brushes nick your bricks. To stop them, you simply stand in their way.

Nowhere near magical, alas - and oustanding only in that it's the nearest game-play gets to hard manual labour. The design is drab, the graphics are dull and indistinct, sound is partly naff - the same few notes from the film-music repeated ad wotsit. Its incentive rating is zilch.