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Woodland Terror is a text-only adventure for the Beeb. The action takes place in Mode 7, and heavy use is made of the teletext features: colour, flashing and double-height text.

As it's written in machine code, the delay between commands and action isn't noticeable. The lexical analyser (word processing routine) is an adequate verb-noun job, like GO WEST... GET BRICK, but nonetheless the texture descriptions give the game some charm and charisma.

The text is compressed, allowing a much larger and complex game that with usual methods (Acornsoft's adventure series, for example). The instructions are adequate, and my only real beef is that the scenario is a little - uh - traditional. Genie enslaves local inhabitants... hero called upon to release: "the unhappy land" from tyranny!!! However, it's a tight and neat adventure... well worth checking out.