After playing Time Search for a short while, I became thoroughly bored and amazed that games like this are actually produced. It is a text adventure with an inane line in replies. The objective - should you care to know - is to find a time machine.

Starting off outside your own front door, after a lengthy and clumsy loading routine that demands a reload of data should you need to restart, GO IN elicits the reply "That makes no sense". Open front door - "What do you mean by that?"

In the pub you can get a tankard of beer but you must drink the tankard because the program cannot see the beer. Gulp! Crunch!

Up the road, you find one of those long obsolete outdoor cigarette machines and, should you be sharp enough to think of inserting a coin, the machine magically swings away to reveal a hidden exit.

The adventure map is a nightmare, with logical exits blocked for no apparent reason. For example, it seems you can move around inside the pub only in a certain direction, and you can't seem to go back and forth from one bar to another.

Personally, I found Time Search so poor that to describe it as mediocre would be to overrate it. It failed to hold my interest at all.