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The not-so-fantastic spin off game from the fantastic TV series.
This is a somewhat limited arcade adventure style game. You to control the characters of the show, situated in their student house, with the aim of collecting their belongings and getting evicted. While you control one character, the others continue their business around the house autonomously, often complicating your tasks.
Graphics, sound and presentation are somewhere between acceptable and mediocre.
Some of the puzzles and situations are humorous, and the character graphics are just about recognisable, but beyond this, it fails to recreate any of the brilliance of the TV show.

1986 Orpheus (UK)
by Richard Wilkins & Stuart Ruecroft

It's not easy to do a good spin off game from a comedy TV show. This one falls in the average category.
The object of the game is like the one in the TV show, you control one character, have to collect your belongings before getting evicted. This means dealing with puzzles.

The game features some interesting elements but also quite limiting, like depending exclusively on menus to do anything. Characters do talk a lot and the information they share is useful to progress in the game, the problem is the amount of it. It's hard to stay alert and read everything, also their actions do impact our characters job, so the same applies here, you should take notice of their actions, but again is hard to keep track of.
The character graphics are just about recognizable, but both Rick and Mike are very subjective looking, they could even represent the queen, from what I see.