Adventure Quest is one of a truly outstanding Middle Earth Trilogy from Level 9 Computing, featuring a neat scrolling text with no memory wasted on unnecessary pictures. By using a super-compact language and text compressor, this program has well over 200 individually-described locations loaded with innumerable objects and characters. Result? A brilliantly constructed Adventure.

The comprehensive instruction booklet provided with the tape reveals that Orc armies have unleashed a savage onslaught upon Middle Earth. The last chance for survival rests with the faint hope of your finding the Black Tower, source of the enemy's demonic power, and destroying it. Entry can only be effected however by possessing the four Stones-of-the-Elements, which are scattered throughout an awesome landscape.

With Death a constant companion (isn't he always?) your search takes you through thick forests, across scorching deserts, and high up into the mountains. Deep within these lies a frightening complex of tunnels, pits and caverns, leading to yet more intriguing locations - and finally to the Black Tower itself.

The problems to overcome are many and difficult - most of them intricately liked. As the enclosed booklet states, "Almost everything in Adventure Quest has a purpose: if only to keep you trying to work out its purpose."

Once you start this Quest, there's no turning back...