Generation Design are continuing to produce budget games for the Acorn market. Their software is targetted at general family use rather than at hardened gamers - the emphasis is on a simple game with simple graphics that will appeal to younger players. If you're the sort of person who enjoys playing something like Alone in the Dark or Sim City 2000 then their games probably aren't for you.

Released late last year was a brand-new game entitled The Pharoahs' Secret Tombs (shown above), a simple mouse-controlled game where you must collect golden pyramids. An array of different movement combinations are arranged around the edge of the screen - such as up, up, right - and you must click on these to steer your character around the screen, avoiding the many deadly objects. Definitely a game for children, in my opinion.

Generation Design have also previously published: Caves of Confusion, a sideways-scrolling shoot'em'up; The Last CyberMoch, a sideways scrolling platform game; RoboCatch, a space invaders-type game; and SeaTrek, where you must wander around a large scrolling area collecting objects.

Generation Design offer a free 14-day home trial of their games - for more information write to:

2, Whitecliff Gardens
Blandford Forum
Dorset
DT11 7BU
Tel. (01258) 452507
Email: genden@argonet.co.uk

All their games work on any RISC OS version, and have recently been upgraded to work with 16-bit sound systems.

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