Grandad II - on SynTax PD
                (Graphic adventure for ST)

                Reviewed by Fred Darlington

Grandad II is the follow up to the first Grandad game. in this
game you play a rather grumpy old gentleman who decides one day to
visit the local park and visit the Funland Complex. So he climbs
aboard his three-wheeled motor bike and off he goes.
Unfortunately when he is in the park, he starts to feel hungry
and he finds that he has lost his sandwiches. Your task is to help
Grandad find his sandwiches.

The game is written in STOS basic and requires 1 megabyte of
memory. It has the colourful, well drawn graphics seen in the
first Grandad game. Sound is a little sparse apart from the noise
of Grandad's motor bike. Control of the game is either with the
joystick or by the keyboard and the spacebar.

Grandad II is a well written game with a nice touch of humour. If
you try reading the graffiti in the toilets, you will see what I
mean. The problems are similar to the Grandad I game, and are
mostly of the kind where you have to find an item in one location
to help you to solve a problem in another location. In that aspect
the are similar to the first Grandad game but I found the problems
in Grandad II somewhat harder than the first game.

Grandad is a shareware game and as such you can move around the
park part of the game freely. But if you want to enter the Funland
part of the game you will have to register with the author.

I think anyone who has enjoyed playing Grandad I will enjoy
Grandad II. If you have not come across either game before, it is
well worth buying.




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