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It's a good time for C64 platform fans. What with Monty On The Run and now Wizard - a US import from Progressive Peripherals.

The aim of the game is simple - to guide Wilfred the Wizard through forty fun-packed screens in search of treasures and magic. The game follows the classic platform style - but with a few new tweaks. Like the screen where everything gradually goes invisible on you, or screens where the stairs suddenly disappear!

Some screens allow you to use certain spells to help you in your quest. You can become invisible to foil deadly monsters who prevent you reaching certain treasures, or blast them with fireballs on other screens or you can levitate when you make the wrong move and start plummeting toward certain death.

The game has four difficulty levels, six game options ranging from beginner to mystery - which you chose determines which level you start each game from. You can change the speed of the game and construct your own screens to call up later. All that and up to six players competing for the ultimate place on the hi-score table.

Wizard is a fast moving game with neat sound - and it's terribly addictive! It's deceptively easy to get started - but you'll soon learn that there is much more to the game than you first suspect. The screens are designed in a way that will keep you guessing. For instance, collect jewels or treasure and lots of other things start happening. Wizard is an extremely well programmed, well presented game - don't be put off by those who tell you it's just another platform game. It isn't - it's something else!