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A departure from usual adventure games, Treasure Tombe is a real-time adventure using low resolution graphics and text screen.

You must explore the 90 caves displayed on the screen. There are 32 pieces of treasure to be found and taken back to Room 1, your starting point and the only room free of monsters.

These unsavoury creatures move stealthily towards you and should be avoided as much as possible, as they sap your strength with every attack.

I could discuss the relative merits of using a full stop to represent wine, or indeed any of the other symbols used to denote objects, but still the game is interesting and enjoyable.

I have played similar games on earlier, more primitive computers and this game is not a great advance on the originals.

However, it is very playable, and a change from all the usual type of adventures.

Dungeon Software call Treasure Tombe a beginners' game, which I suppose is a fair classification, but believe me, the game is far from easy to complete. Being real time, you have little chance of making carefully thought out decisions.

C.G.