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The cassette cover says LOAD "BULL" and that's exactly what this game is. The basic idea is fine. You have to trap an escaped bull by picking up pieces of fence and positioning them around the animal.

One could even almost forgive the graphics, despite the fact that the tiny character-size drawings which represent you and the bull jerk around the screen like penguins on pogo-sticks.

What's unforgivable is that the game uses an almost impossible combination of keys, and when (after a few seconds) your single life is used up, it forces you to sit through a long and utterly uninteresting pre-game routine before you can start again.

The keys are the cursor keys for movement plus 'P' to pick up a fence and D to drop it into position. Easy to remember. Ludicrous in actual use.

It's just possible that if you put in hours of frustrating effort, you might get to the point where the game became enjoyable. But much more likely you'll give up, gored and bored.