Producer: Phipps Associates, 48K
£4.95

Seek out the Scroll of Wisdom in this text adventure with location graphics. There is the usual assortment of items and monsters, battling puzzles and sudden deaths through inexperience. Reasonable graphics and medium fast response times. An average effort.

Producer: Phipps Associates, 48K
£4.95

Seek out the Scroll of Wisdom in this text adventure with location graphics. There is the usual assortment of items and monsters, battling puzzles and sudden deaths through inexperience. Reasonable graphics and medium fast response times. An average effort.

Producer: Phipps Associates, 48K
£4.95

Seek out the Scroll of Wisdom in this text adventure with location graphics. There is the usual assortment of items and monsters, battling puzzles and sudden deaths through inexperience. Reasonable graphics and medium fast response times. An average effort.

48K Spectrum
Adventure
£4.95
Phipps Associates

Graphic adventure game along the lines of Hobbit. Familiar landscape of mountains, caves, tunnels, dungeons, rivers peopled with dwarves, lizards and spiders. Not as good as Hobbit but engrossing enough.

PRICE: £4.95
MEMORY REQUIRED: 48K

Magic Mountain is the first of three adventure games reviewed this month. Phipps Associates have a tradition of producing good adventures, and this seems to be no exception.

The Magic Mountain holds the ancient Scroll of Wisdom - a powerful document, much prized by the sorcerers. You must find it and survive to tell the tale!

I have been fortunate to see the solution to this adventure, which reveals the relative complexity and intrigue which surrounds the game. Phipps Associates have incorporated a split screen display with graphics in the upper half, and text in the lower. This improves the enjoyment of the game no end, and should be a minimum requirement of an adventure. Out of the four adventures reviewed here, this is the most professionally written and produced, and by far the most interesting.