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Ziggurat is an adventure game - and that's about the limit of the instructions! Your mission is to escape and collect the gold coins littered around a monotonous collection of rooms. Each room is described by just one or two adjectives and the graphics at each location are almost identical, apart from colour. Colour is also added to the text and the character set has been redefined to give a bolder appearance.

There is a help command but you are only allowed to use it four times. You may save a partially completed game to continue later.

The input routine is good but you must experiment to find acceptable commands.

Zigurat seems to be based around a 5 x 5 grid with puzzles limited to a few locked doors, although one does require you to get the better of a particularly ravenous tiger.

Alas, the lift to the surface defeats me. As a ziggurat is a pyramidical temple, this could lead to more levels, but unless this is correct, and they are an improvement on the first, Ziggurat is unlikely to retain interest for long.

S.J.E.