An entertaining and none too easy re-imagining of Crowther's original. It took me a while to realise how to combat any nasties - as so often the real foe is the parser. I was attacked by a nasty skeleton and armed with a sharp knife. Unfortunately the game does not understand "skeleton" and the simple "kill" parses "what do you want to kill?" After much thought I found that "kill with knife" does the trick. Presumable this will work as a catch all (or should that be slaughter all)?

I must confess I cheated somewhat and increased the lamp life in the source code. My main bugbear in old text adventures is finite lamp life. It may be more realistic but I don't play these games for their gritty realism.

Wonderful games like Acheton and Brand X are somewhat impaired for me by tight lamp timers. To draw a not very good analogy I liken it to visiting your favourite restaurant and being told you can only have the table for an hour. I have no issue with sudden deaths/mazes/learning through screwing up however.