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I found the cassette inlay much more exciting than the actual game. There is a promise of a three screen game, each with its own particular problems.

The first scene is a guarded room where you have to retrieve various objects, including one which is only visible in a torch beam. Success there leads you to a bridge built of many sections which disappear at apparently irregular times. After this the scene becomes subaquatic with deadly jellyfish to overcome, before fending off the man-eating birds in the catacombs. Eventually the safe in the castle vault is at your mercy.

With great expectations, I loaded the program and then found the whole thing to be very disappointing indeed. The graphics are small, fiddly and rather amateurish, while the movement is jerky and difficult to judge. The program was written in BASIC and then compiled, and the results fall far short of that which Spectrum owners have come to expect.