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Strange name for a game, I thought, until I realised that this is a game about a game.

You play a computered child who has only one thing in mind, the playing of computer games. In a scenario that is probably just a little too close to real for some families, the young player has first to do chores before being allowed to play the game.

This game is therefore a fusion of two games in one. The first part involves the chores being done and is based around the maze-searching idea. You explore the rooms in a house and have to find the right object to do the chosen task.

Unfortunately the identification of the objects is rather difficult. For example, decorating involves the collection of a picture representing a flower on a roll of paper - at least that's what I guess it is.

If you manage to retrieve the correct object then you are allowed to have a game on the computer. The game concerned is a helicopter shoot-and-kill game. You take off from the aircraft carrier and then destroy as many of the enemy as possible before landing to refuel.

There are a couple of difficulties. Firstly, the radar screen has each helicopter plotted as a single dot and you tend to go a little myopic just looking for them. Secondly you can't change speed to overtake the nasties.

The price forgives all of these problems though.

J.B.