Some considerable effort went into the production of this adventure game, where the player assumes the role of a poor little wriggly worm who must find his way through unimaginable worm-threatening hazards, to his uncle's Wormsday party.

It was so difficult to crack this one, in order to review it before Christmas, that I had to cheat by listing the whole program.

I then proceeded to test every branch of the tree and found some interesting graphics and convolutions of the plot in the process.

I was particularly impressed by the effort that went into the input string handling which is flexible enough to accept variation on a theme and not hung up for the lack of a full stop, etc.

On my voyage of discovery, my poor little wormlike body was pecked to death by crows, mashed by cars and whatever you do, and this is the only tip I'll give you, don't drink the clear liquid. Sulphuric acid does not taste nice!

All in all, a good adventure game which, although not pushing back the frontiers, is worth the money.

M.B.