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An excellent and very colourful arcade-type game. You guide Checkout Charlie around a grid, changing the colour of the squares as you pass over them. The first time you run over a square it turns striped, the next it becomes the target colour - the one the grid has to be completely covered in before you can proceed to the next screen.

This may sound more like a game of logic rather than an arcade game, probably because I haven't told you about the remote-controlled robot who moves very swiftly around the maze. If he bumps into you, you lose a life.

On the left of the screen is an egg timer. Every time the last few grains of sand disappear the robot fires a four-way death dealing laser. If you happen to be in its path you disintegrate.

As you clear more screen, the action speeds up, and even though the concept remains the same I haven't got bored yet. Superb graphics and sound, and originality, combine to make a wonderful game.

M.B.