Mail order adventures from small concerns can be a cheap way of supplying your adventure habit - they can also be a risky way of spending your money. One we received for review did not exactly inspire confidence right from the start.

It is a cassette adventure for CPC machines called Mad Jock's Family Reunion from Dented Designs. You would think that anyone sending in a game for review would try to get everything as well presented as possible, if only to try and impress the reviewer.

For starters, MJFR was on a tape that was too small to include the whole program and had to be turned over to load the final few blocks.

Your task is to find Jock's four sons and persuade them to visit the old man for the aforementioned family reunion. Finding them is not too difficult, but persuading them is another story. To get each one to Jocks, you have to find the right object to give to each son. Having given him this he will then go off happily to see his dad.

The game has simple graphics for several of its 60 locations. There is plenty of pseudo-Scots text, some of it quite funny. The only problem is that after several attempts I have not been able to complete more than one task before the game crashes. Perhaps they will send us another version when they have sorted it out. Perhaps it got corrupted in the post - but what if it didn't?