Reviews

Released back in the early days of the Spectrum this game was something of a minor hit. The rather dubious plot has hen-pecked husband Henry sneaking out of the house for a night on the tiles under the nose of his axe-wielding maniac of a wife, who gives the game its title.

It's something of an uneasy mix of text adventure and arcade-style games. I use the latter term loosely as it's all written in BASIC with consequent slow speed and usage of UDGs. The text adventure parts are handled a bit better, but only just; it's still quite slow and there aren't many locations or interesting puzzles.

All in all, it's hard to imagine how such a sexist mess of clashing genres with such poor execution could ever have appealed much outside a market that was starved of quality games. Ah well, I guess it'd be ripe for a port to the Wii...