May I bleg, please? There is a computer game called “Tonic Trouble,” made

by UbiSoft, I think. It came bundled with a bunch of other stuff on an

installation CD from Matrox, to go with a fancy video card I bought 3-4 yrs

ago. My son located it somehow & it is absolutely his favorite game. It

features a strange little guy named Ed, whose hands and feet are not

connected to his body (pretty much the way I feel after a day spent

shoveling snow), who goes through various adventures involving ski slopes,

hot lava, etc. etc. Don’t ask me, I’ve only caught the game in passing. I

located a couple of reviews on the web, both agreed that Tonic Trouble may

be the dumbest game ever sold. Be that as it may, it’s a huge hit with

Daniel Oliver Derbyshire; and so far as I can see no-one gets eviscerated or

decapitated in it, which puts it way ahead of most computer games nowadays

in ethical content. Trouble is, I just got my son a new machine, and the

Matrox version doesn’t work on it. Does anyone know of a version of Tonic

Trouble I can buy that will work on a plain vanilla PC running Win 98? I’ll

pay full list price. Please respond to [email protected]—my Hotmail

account is hopelessly jammed up.