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    Faery Tale Adventure - an unrivalled experience, a masterpiece.
    
    Ed.

Dungeon Master and Faery Tale Adventure are by far the best of the dungeon 
graphic adventure games. Dungeon Master is a better looking game with more 
contols and spells but Faery Tale Adventure has a more arcade feel. Faery 
Tale Adventure is the larger of the two adventures.. Both games will 
keep you busy for weeks. The closest rivals are Bard's Tale and Bard's Tale
Two. Bard's Tale Two is the largest and most complicated game of all the 
dungeon style games.  
                           Jeff Peters

    abd then there the classics:
    
    ZORK I,II & III
    
    available from Infocom for the Amiga - and rumour has it that the
    great underground empire is about to have graphics added - in much
    the same style as "The Pawn" and "The guild of thieves" - nothing
    animated but better than text. 
    
    Full of mindboggling puzzles, hilarious antics, wierd inhabitants
    ZORK is a must for Text/graphic/command Parsing style game lovers.
    No team of characters to build,resurrect etc - just you against
    the GUE.

    Phil
    PS: I also vote for the Bards Tale I & II - I have both but am still
    on I (15th floor - havent played for about 4 months)    
    
    
    
    

    Spotlight/Cinemaware has just released a new adventure game called
    Death Bringer. It's quite good. Fast moving, you can talk to characters
    you may encounter. Excellent graphics. Easy saving and reloading games.
    You can encounter helpful beings as well as nasties. Mapping required
    if you want to complete the game in a timely fashion (or at all). A
    small world with several dungeons and towers to explore. And the best
    part of it, is no more typical "text screens" that were commonly
    associated with Cinemaware games (while graphics were loading)!
    
    Also I agree with previous replies about Dungeon Master and Faiery Tale
    Adventure, these are two great games.
    
    				-Paul
    

    
    	Dungeon Master gets my vote, unreservedly. A fabulous game,
    the true spirit of dungeoneering and showing off all that is best
    on the Amiga... Well worth getting the extra 512K for !!!
    
    	As for Faery Tale, well it's massive, it's well done, and it's
    realistic!. But the main realism seems to be in the way that, even
    when you have discovered the means to tap the ley-line teleport
    system, you still have to spend endless days (hours at least) simply
    trudging across country.
    
    	This trudging is OK when you are reasonably green, but when
    you have a degree of firepower it gets a bit tedious. I have never
    actually finished this one (unlike the above DM), and this is my
    normal way of rating a good game! ie. One thats addictive in the
    long term and you just can't wait to solve the next bit, on this
    score DM gets 110%. Faery tale? Nice but can't remember what draw
    I've left it in.
    
    Regards, Mark.
    
    
    

    Stu,
    Try swords of twilight. This game is similar in nature to Fairy Tale
    adventure but involves multiple worlds and best of all, three players
    can play it at a time. One player can use the keyboard and the other
    two can use joysticks. Good for a family game.
    Of course, Faery Tale Adventure and Land of Legend? are very good as
    well.
    Regards,
    Ron

    
    Top 5 Adventure from INFO Nov/Dec 89  (UINET 2924.0)
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    1. Dungeon Master (there is rumour in Notes that DM II is due out
       shortly).
    2. Zork Series (I have Zork Zero, this is the latest and greatest,
             in capability, but I am just starting out).
    3. Faery Tale Adventure
    4. Uninvited
    5. Leisure Suit Larry    (Note there are 2 LSL versions out).
    
    In Australia, our local Amiga 1990 Annual mag rated Mortville Manor
    top of the heap ahead of Zork etc. Its certainly different and highly
    absorbing, but I wouldnt put it top of the heap. It looks like a port -
    doesnt take full advantage of Amiga capabilities - no animated graphics
    (so far, but its early days yet in my game), sounds are sequential etc.
    All commands are mouse driven off menu's, but I found the choices a bit
    limiting - nothing like a good INFOCOM parser. However, its probably
    the best one for families or small groups to play detective, because
    the user interaction is straightforward and all the characters talk to
    you, which is still a novelty outside of we Amiga freaks. The plot is
    a good one too.