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Christmas 1996. The night is freezing outside the window. Everyone is asleep. I unwrapped a shiny CDROM and loaded it up on the tray of my PC. I patiently went through the installation instructions and was ready to go. The Game screen comes up on the monitor and a strangely haunting theme tune emerges. For someone fed up with a diet of fighting/ strategy and sport games there is a slight flicker of hope. The blurb talks about a globe trotting adventurer very much in the spirit of Indiana Jones.

Yet there is no rugged visage or a hat in sight. Instead she comes up on the screen. She is wearing a very functional pale blue top, brown shorts and low slung holsters with her twin pistols and carries a back pack. The blocky polygons suggest a pretty brunette with an athletic build. None of your thongs and ridiculous metal bras that seem to plague female characters in other video games!

The game started with an over the shoulder third person perspective, A cold wind blew and howled around me as I stepped into a cave.

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