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After the books and the recent TV series we now have the computer game. The computer version is mostly text with accompanying screen illustrations. Starting as a spotty schoolboy, you read through Adrian Mole's diary, making decisions which then determine the following story line. The aim is to make yourself (Adrian Mole) popular, not easy with his problems, a feminist girlfriend called Pandora (call me Box), a terror of an old age pensioner, and a perpetually lost dog. If that does not appeal, then you can, as the instructions suggest, set out to make yourself very unpopular!

Playing the part, I managed to lift my rating to 'suburban schoolboy', an achievement I was not too proud of.

The programmers (Level 9) have done a good job, faithfully capturing most of the flavour of the original book. Those who are fans of Adrian Mole will enjoy this opportunity to play the part themselves.

However, once I had read right through the diary I felt little incentive to play again, particularly as the game is in four sections loaded in turn from cassette (in my case). Despite this, Adrian Mole is both popular and successful, and as a bit of Christmas fun the computer game will surely sell well.