THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE
(1985, Mosaic Publishing Ltd)


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INTRODUCTION
I learned today that I am to be the subject of a computer game. The object of 
the game is to make me popular with everyone, which sounds dead brilliant.
Apparently they've written an enormous program containing 200 kilos of text, 
which Brainbox Henderson says is a lot. Now everyone else can have a go at 
coping with all the problems that beset me over an entire year of my life. It's 
an illustrated text game, which means you have artistic pictures to look at 
while you ponder about what to do next. So have a go, and see what it's like 
being a budding intellectual and poet who has to cope with my family, friends 
and the dog. Then you'll know what I have to put up with.
Ha! Ha! Ha!

THE GAME
Adrian is a worrier. The problems of existence hit him hard. Spots, bits of him 
that won't keep still, the cracks in his parents' marriage, all prey heavily on 
his mind. There are some consolations. A fourteen-year-old feminist, an eight-
nine-year-old chain smoker and his spoilt best friend all help to lift the 
gloomy introspection of Mole's moods. Mole believes he is an intellectual. He is 
dogged by ill-health as well as by an infuriatingly ever-present pet dog, and by 
a catalogue of misfortunes familiar to anyone over the age of thirteen.