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Lost City is the first real adventure game that I got for the Beeb and I was pleased that it loaded without a hitch. I plunged straight into the adventure and died several times before I discovered that you need the boots before you can climb the mountainside. After several hours I had gone some way into the adventure and from then on the progress was slow.

At every different location you are told what you can see and any exits that exist and sometimes even a teletext picture, which makes a colourful change. Sentences can be made up from a great choice of words and can be a decent length, abbreviations may not be used. One huge fault is that the computer has no 'save game' facility and an hour or more of moves can be lost through one mistake.

Despite one or two faults, Lost City is a well-thought-out adventure.