JESTER QUEST (Zenobi Software) Spectrum 48K/128K+2 This is the tale of a fat little chap by the name of Jeremy, by trade a jester, by nature a brainless fool. There were some who said he was the "best" jester in the land but there were also others who said he was the ONLY jester! One day whilst "exercising" his "eldest" joke to the court of King Bawd the second, accompanied by the usual cacophony of snores and yawns, his career took a sudden turn for the worst as the courtroom doors were flung open and in burst a rival jester!!! It was Userper the great jester of the Southlands, come to claim the position of court jester as his own. With a barrage of quick-fire jokes he soon had the court rolling about in fits of laughter, leaving poor old Jeremy broken-hearted and unemployed. For in a trice the King, his eyes watering with mirth, shouted at Jeremy, "You're fired!" and clicking his fingers at two guards, had him "politely" escorted to the nearest window and promptly flung out of it. Jeremy picked himself up and began to brush off the dirt from his trendy jester-suit, when a passing Pixie asked him "You alright?". Jeremy replied "Of course I am, I landed on my head didn't I?" before heading in the direction of the "Prancing Odour" tavern to drown his sorrows and contemplate his next move. Whilst drowning his sorrows in several large flagons of best "Troll's water", Jeremy suddenly noticed a pink elephant wearing a tutu appear before him. "Fear not little fat chappie," said the pink elephant, "I am your fairy godmother and I have come to tell you how to get your job back. First of all you will need to give your jokes the extra boost of the "Secret of Laughter". This you can obtain from Smurkin the Warlock of the Northern Hills ... in exchange for his daughter Xel ... currently held captive within Grizelda's lodge ... and the collection of necessary Ingredients. Her is a list of the ingredients you will need to find but you will have to rescue Xel all by yourself." So saying the pink elephant thrust a tatty bit of paper into Jeremy's hand and vanished as quickly as it had arrived. Jeremy gazed at the paper and prepared to set off on his less than historic quest. NOTES ... This game will accept all the standard commands but it also supports some of the more unusual ones such as ... OOPS ... Take back one move. AGAIN ... Repeat last command. LAST ... Will move the player back to the last room they visited. FONT ... Use this in conjunction with the letters A, B, C or D to select the font of your choice. TELL JOKE ... This is Jeremy's ultimate weapon, one of his terrible jokes, but not everybody will succumb to them. This game will also respond to such commands as GET ALL, EXAMINE ALL and DROP ALL. Use RAMSAVE or RAMLOAD to store a position to memory but always use the standard SAVE and LOAD to make a more permanent record on tape. TEXT will turn the graphics off and PICTURES will turn the graphics back on again.