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After reading the scenario on the cassette insert, I was looking forward to playing the game. What a let down.

First of all, I had trouble loading, until I realised that one side was recorded at 300 baud - a very nice feature, though undocumented.

A wizard, wand in hand gazes out upon a lake and sees, standing atop five small islands, five lonely princesses. The wizard is of course their protector, for above hover five demons waiting to prey on them.

You are able to position the wizard's wand anywhere between horizontal over the lake and vertical to the sky, and all you need do is point the wand and fire one shot, and the demons are destroyed.

All seems fine, but you only have 22 lightning bolts, though more are awarded after each attack wave.

You may think that you have a sporting chance while you have shots remaining. True, until a demon decides to go for wizard rather than princess; the demon has a nasty habit of flying just behind the vertical or from below making it impossible to destroy.

The explanation for the relative simplicity of this game is that it's written in Basic. But this does mean it is possible to increase the shots you have.

The quality of the sound and graphics is ok, it is just the overall idea which made me lose interest so soon.