What I mean is that, far from being just one thing, they just have to offer more. Harvester is one of a new breed of cd-rom games that seem to be emerging at the moment. Once you enter their Lodge you find yourself battling against some of the most vile and hideously deformed creatures you've ever laid eyes on, and I'm not talking about the Family Ties lot. Well, some of her has - all but her skull and spinal cord are missing and no one seems to care! Everyone appears to be like one of the characters from the Stepford Wives, and seem to bow before some Masonic organisation called The Order of the Harvest Moon, which, incidentally, you've just received an invitation to join. Well, you find out you are engaged to the girl next door, but when you call on her, you find she's just popped out. Dogs idly accompany paperboys on their rounds, Mr Normal across the road is washing his car and the local news reporter has just hung himself because the Women's Guild coffee morning just isn't really front-page news. Fox and the rest of the Family Ties crowd on the other side. Your neighbours on one side are probably brat-features from the Wonder Years, and Michael J. It's one of those sweet little towns, much preferred by American sitcoms - you know what I mean. Like I said, Harvest is your home town and you have lived there all your life, but here comes the crunch - you just cannot remember a damned thing! The play on words here is that the other harvester is certainly not from your home town unless, that is, you happen to reside in or around Hades wi. It just so happens that Harvest is the name of the small town that the game is centred around, and being from there yourself, a Harvester you be. Now that's a bit of a strange name for a computer game, don't you think (unless it was a sort of farmer simulator), but the chaps at Merit Software, a Dallas based firm, seem to think otherwise.

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