THE COVENANT
 PSS 1985

 CONTROLS : Keyboard, Kempston, Cursor
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 AIM : The eponymous Covenant refer to a long lost parchment which
 carries the entire cultural record of long dead people, who have now
 mutated and are scattered along with fragments of the Covenant among
 the 256 caverns of a subterranean world. Your task is to find the 64
 pieces of parchment and also to gather the mutant creatures, so that
 when you have the complete parchment the planet surface can be
 repopulated. 

 GAMEPLAY : You travel in a globe armed with a stun gun. The globe
 itself is rather difficult to control! Whenever you or it come into
 contact with a creature, energy will be lost, so your first task in
 any cavern is to stun the creatures within andtake them on board by
 manoeuvring your craft over them.

 The whole cave system is divided up into blocks of four rooms. Each
 area has a key, a piece of the Covenant and some anaesthetic. The
 latter refils the stun gun; you must stun all the creatures in a
 zone before you can move onto the next area.

 You only have one life, so be careful! However, lost energy can be
 regained by standing on a power point. At any stage of the game you
 can see your current status by pressing the space bar.

 COMMENTS : "An inspired but difficult game."
 RATING : 83% (CRASH #19, August 1985)

 NOW : A somewhat weird game with nice graphics, but just too hard (for
 me, at any rate).
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 KEYS : Redefinable