The best title of the week award goes to Nemesis for Arnold Goes To Somewhere Else. Arnold Blackwood faces yet more perils in the form of a British Rail Buffet, a burial at sea and a Greek tragedy as he scours the underworld for the wife of Lord Erebus. Mixed scenarios and a healthy sense of the ridiculous make for plenty of fun.

Message from Andromeda has the best graphics of any software yet for the Amstrad, but some of the backdrops are drawn rather slowly. Interceptor claims it's been specially developed for the seasoned adventurer. As captain of a space patrol cruiser you receive a distress signal from a previously unknown planet and set off to investigate...

Return To Eden features 200 pictures and more puzzles than Snowball. Curious that so many of the first packages for this micro are adventures. It's also available for the BBC, Commodore 64 and Spectrum.

If you want to use your micro for plotting graphs, then you might consider Grasp. It's the first such package for the Amstrad and will also construct graphs of mathematical functions. It can handle 100 data points per graph, will produce labelled pie charts, line and bar graphs and offers a hard copy facility.

It's nice to see Acornsoft delivering a whole range of professional software to support owners of 6502 second processors. P-System is the latest version of the UCSD Pascal project and includes a filer, editor, utilities and compilers for both Pascal and Fortran 77.

Also from Acorn comes a family of 'View' programs to extend the word processor's facilities. ViewSheet is a ROM-based spreadsheet with 255 by 255 cells, with windowing, multiple model merging and up to 30K or RAM: ViewIndex creates an index from marked words in View files, and will automatically amend the index should the document be altered. The printer-driver generator constructs data files to allow you to make full use of facilities such as boldface, subscript, etc.

For those of you lost in morass of badly labelled disks, Discdex could be a sanity and time saver. It catalogues disks and saves the data in alphabetical order.

Frantic Fingers, from Power Software, will save a small machine code patch program onto cassette to reconfigure your control keys and allow you to play games with a joystick.

Joining the new idea of compendia of old games comes Alligata with its Chartbuster package. Featuring games like Blagger, Eagle Empire, Killerwatt, Panic Planet and Bug Blaster, it's a good deal at £9.95.

Aren't graphics programs popular? It all started with Paintpic, and then come Panorama(H), Doodle, and now two art programs from Commodore itself. The latest is Tony Hart's Art Master which has some interesting features not found in others - like a duplicate screen on which effects can be tested before being committed to paper, 'ghosting' of shapes to judge size and position and shape repetition.

The Designer's Pencil isn't just a graphics package, it also allows you to create tunes, but no review copy was supplied and the press release is somewhat vague as to the program's features.

With the demise of the Dragon, Shards has been busy converting its Pettigrew programs for the C64, and all four adventures are now available as a single package on two cassettes.

With the success of Scrabble and other board games, it comes as no surprise that someone has now produced a version of Cluedo. Well-packaged and with a set of tear-off clue cards to mark up as the game progresses, this is just the job for those long winter nights, and it joins the growing ranks of games that involve more than one or two players.

If you're looking for a holy grail you might fancy the latest arcade/strategy game froom Melbourne House.

Galilee is the sequel to Jericho Road and Peter Goodlad, the programming vicar, has set the graphics adventure in the villages which surround the sea of Galilee in the first century BC.

Project X: The Micro Men is a text-only adventure written in machine code and with 150 locations. The game demands that you make full use of your imagination.