Spirit of the Stones

The player plays as a treasure hunter who needs to gather all 40 diamond talismen plus the Great Wight Eye from the spirit-infested island to win the game. The game starts with a scrolling overview map of the island. When the player enters one of the 21 buildings, the game switches to a platform level and must avoid hazards including arrows and falling objects. Players who completed the game could write to the publisher to claim a prize. ==Reception==

Home Computing Weekly gave Spirit of the Stones a rating of 3/5 stars; the reviewer enjoyed the action gameplay, but found the puzzles too difficult and the music annoying after a time. Commodore Computing International included a news article about the game and a review in its November 1984 issue, giving it an overall rating of 5/5 stars; the reviewer praised the colourful, imaginative book and detailed scrolling map. Commodore User reviewed the game in its adventure games section, highlighting its novelty as a kind of Masquerade for the computer literate which marks Commodore's first substantial original title in the genre, but finding the arcade elements too difficult for the younger player and probably rather too trite for the conventional adventurer. ==References==