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If you enjoy flying magic carpets over endless expanses of desert, or wandering hopelessly in a maze of deserted catacombs, then you will enjoy the search for Aladdin's lamp.

But if you are easily discouraged by such activities then you should avoid this program like the plague.

You should also avoid this program if you like your adventures to understand more than two words at a time, and if you are female.

At one point in The Stolen Lamp you encounter a 'girl'. No objection is made if you 'Take girl' and if later you want to 'Drop girl' you find that someone turns up and walks off with 'it'! This relegation of women to the status of carpets and camels could have been easily avoided!

Finally, you should avoid this program if you like your adventures to have split-screen graphics, large vocabularies and consistent responses. The Stolen Lamp has none of these. You can either have graphics (where available) or text, not both. The vocabulary is so small it doesn't even understand words like 'Give', 'Go', 'Enter', or 'Examine'!

The only thing this program has in its favour is the potential of the idea. A potential that is unfortunately not at all fulfilled.