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When Incentive released their Graphic Adventure Creator software, they mentioned that they would be interested in seeing any quality game produced using the package. Home-grown games are marketed as the 'Medallion' range, and two have now been released of which Winter Wonderland is the first. As usual, the BBC game appears to be a cut-down of other versions involving quite a few locations with no graphics, and those which are illustrated are almost identical to each other.

The game is extremely simple and any grizzled old adventurer will hack his/her way through the puzzles without any difficulty, in two or three sessions. The library of commands understood by the game is very limited and the puzzles trivial.

The game's storyline concerns your crash landing and subsequent wanderings around the icy wastes of old Tibet. You quickly stumble into Shangri-La which is complete with Shopping Centre, Skate Hire Shops and Hotels, and a Cash Card with enough of the built-in readies to pay off Tibet's national debt!

The low chuckling noise which you will hear throughout the game is probably caused by the staff of Level 9 and Robico Software as they assess the damage that future games of this range will have on their sales!

This game appears to be just what it is - a short, unsophisticated game written by an amateur. If this is the standard of future games in the series then to be successful they must either be advertised as suitable for beginners, or sold as budget software with a corresponding drop in price.