Top Ten Adventures @~To register your votes, just send in your choices, number them @~1st to 10th and preferably give brief comments on why you voted @~for each game. 10 points are awarded for 1st place down to 1 @~point for 10th place. @~Also if anyone would like to amend their Top Ten because of new @~releases/change of machine/whatever, that's no problem. Just @~send me your revised list and I'll dig out the calculator! @~The first revised list is in! Here is: James Judge's Top Ten #2 I thought I'd deviate from the standard list this time and give my top ten in proper Top Of The Pops/Radio 1FM style so here goes: - Cue annoying music and screams from the crowd - Down three places at number TEN is the old favourite Lure Of The Temptress from Virgin Games - THE vast point 'n' click adventure. It weaves an extremely detailed picture of life in a village under the iron fisted rule of the Temptress. Although I have nearly completed it it is still a joy to play. In at number NINE is the DM style game which takes the ST's sound and graphical capabilities to new bounds. Taking up a whole megabyte Ishar:Legend Of The Fortress from Silmarils sees you taking on the role of five hardy adventurers and having to deal with fiendish quests, annoying monsters, a huge landscape and, for once, party moral. A great game but a tad too slow. A non-mover is another DM RPG by Mindscape - Knightmare. Graphically you can't fault it (well, maybe just a bit) and the puzzles are hard enough to have you moaning and screaming at the computer. Well done, Mindscape. Down from number FOUR to number SEVEN is the great Populous 2 by Bullfrog. A fun game with its own sadistic humour. To begin with it is boring and slow but when you get a few hundred levels into it, the game becomes a frantic race to destroy each other. Down a whopping four places is Activision's Deuteros to number SIX. You need to be in thinking mode for this beast. A huge game incorporating seven solar systems, two distinctive races of aliens and many problems such as how do you travel to the different solar systems? Knocked off the number ONE spot to number FIVE is Mindscape's Captive. An instant success with me and one which won't leave my top ten for quite a while. A simple matter of killing monsters and blowing up space stations to rescue yourself but the sheer amount of atmosphere will have you jumping every time a huge monster come lumbering around the corridor or you hear a monster following you. Nice one Mindscape - how about releasing Captive 2 on the ol' ST? A new entry at number FOUR is Peter Hague's Obscure Naturalist. A STAC adventure which has an answer to most of your inputs, beautiful graphics, a bit of sound, NO bugs or spelling/grammatical errors and wonderful puzzles. It costs five pounds to get part two but well worth it in my books. Another new entry to number THREE is Mindscape's Legend. The continuing saga of the Land of Trazere is taken to new limits with this difficult, fun and enjoyable 3D RPG. The graphics are good and the puzzles are extremely infuriating. Well worth a place in anyone's collection. Yet ANOTHER new entry to this wonderful top ten - Origin's Ultima 5 coming in at number TWO. Summoned from your homeland (Earth) to aid in the fight against the evil Shadowlords and find the missing Lord British you will be instantly swept up in mini sub-quests which will have you talking with everyone and travelling the length and breadth of Britannia. All I can say is thanks, Sue. - Excited hush from the crowd as the presenter takes a deep breath to say the name of the number one game - And, in the top spot this time is the highest new entry... wait for it... Lemmings 2. Nope not an adventure game this time but the best game I've ever seen. If I say 'Wheeeee, KERSPLAT' you'll get why I lurve this game to bits. I don't actually own it (not yet anyway) but after playing it round a friend's I was instantly hooked to the lovable but homicidal little Lems. Great fun made even better when you have a friend to help you - no doubt a few arguments will break out about whose idea is the best! Get it at your peril but miss it and you'll regret it for the rest of your life. Oh, and Sue it IS available on the ST. Hah! @~ On the horizon is one game which may knock Lemmings 2 (Legends Of Valour) off its perch but we will just have to wait and see, won't we. @~So the revised running total is: 104 pts Dungeon Master 45 pts Enchanter, Chaos Strikes Back 41 pts Lurking Horror 36 pts Trinity 33 pts Wishbringer 28 pts Leather Goddesses 25 pts Loom 23 pts Guild of Thieves 22 pts Hitchhikers' Guide 21 pts Beyond Zork, Demon's Winter 20 pts Sorcerer, Planetfall 17 pts Captive, Bloodwych, Jinxter 16 pts Ultima IV, Ultima V 15 pts Fish!, Bard's Tale I, Stationfall, Xenomorph 13 pts Infidel 12 pts Zork II, Larry 3, Drakkhen, Time and Magik 11 pts Phantasie III, Spellbreaker, Manhunter San Francisco 10 pts Crusaders of the Dark Savant, Knightmare, Lords of Chaos, Lords of Time, Eye of the Beholder I, Lemmings 2 9 pts Bloodwych, Red Moon, Eye of the Beholder III, Monkey Island 1, 8 pts Pirates, Zak McKracken, Bard's Tale III, Legend 7 pts Corruption, Humbug, Price of Magik, Monkey Island 2, Sorcerer, Ingrid's Back, Obscure Naturalist 6 pts Ultima VII:Black Gate, Lost Files of Sherlock Homes, Journey, The Four Symbols, Phantasie I 5 pts Ultima Underworld II, Darkseed, Ultima Underworld I, Manhunter New York, Jacaranda Jim, Dragonflight, Sleeping Gods Lie, Hammer of Grimmold, Bard's Tale 2, Suspect, Larry 2, Deuteros 4 pts Might and Magic III, The Maze, Wonderland, Legend, Rigel's Revenge, Zork Zero, Populous 2 3 pts Fool's Errand, Mortville Manor, Cortizone, Ballyhoo, Deja Vu, Jade Stone, Witness, Wizard's Crown, Space Quest 1 2.5 pts Zork I 2 pts Keys of the Wizard, Spellcasting 101, Phantasie II, Infestation, Legend of the Sword, Camelot, Bureaucracy, Operation Stealth, Mega-lo-Mania, Ishar 1 1 pt Colossal (Level 9), Plundered Hearts, Future Wars, Wizard's Tower, Jade Stone, Football Director II, Exile, Lure of the Temptress 1/2 pt Zork III