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This 16K adventure takes place in a musty old castle, which seems to belong to a rather anti-social wizard, who on finding out he has visitors, promptly sets them the task of obtaining six treasures he has hidden in one of the rooms. Failure to collect these articles will result in your having to wander through the castle ad infinitum. An excellent inlay card provides an entertaining storyline as well as above average hints and instructions, but missing the usual LOAD "" note.

The game turns out to be pure text adventure (in 16K what do you expect), which unfortunately suffers from an unresponsive and soggy keyboard. This causes numerous spelling mistakes and rather odd spacings when normal typing pressure is applied, but the technique soon becomes obvious. The program will accept the occasional spelling error, but it is annoying having to keep deleting words and retyping them. The choice of words has to be thought hard about due to the obviously limited vocabulary, but there are hints given to help. Also some of the programmer's humour is conveyed in some of the witty replies given. As adventure games are not exactly my forte I was a little stumped at first, but with perseverence and a little 'help' from my friends, I achieved quite a respectable score.

In comparison with other 16K adventure games, I suppose this one from Bug-Byte is par for the course, but obviously the idea is to continually improve the standards and I feel that, with this one, they are on the right track, even if it is a little expensive.