 
The Scout Steps Out is an Amsoft computer title based around the everyday adventures of a boy scout. It features such universally significant challenges as cleaning windows, gathering mushrooms (?) and diving for sea life. In fact it's one of the most bizarre looking games I've seen in a long while. All the graphics are drawn in line only 3D, more commonly associated with games like Battlezone - here the graphics are static and look faintly ethereal and insubstantial. Curious. The game, though, is basically several varieties of platforms and ladders with appropriately scouty elements like pack leaders who chase you and flags to collect. To begin with you have only one life and the game seems impossible - in fact the cornflakes prove the solution to this problem. Hard to come to a strong conclusion about this one -the music is good, some of the graphics are clever and in some ways the strange 3D line effect is successful - in other ways it looks confused and makes it difficult to judge exactly where you are. Worth a look anyway. Popular Computing Weekly
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