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Demon Decorator is one of those annoyingly simple games that can end up driving you to distraction. The graphics are awful and make no use of the machine's capabilities whatsoever, and the sound is no better, but mercifully there is little of it.

When you actually get down to playing the game, however, you will find it very difficult to stop. The screen is divided into squares and you control a paint-roller as it rolls along the lines of the grid.

On entering the game, the grid perimeter is painted yellow, and your task is to spread this paint across all four sides of each square. At this point the square in question will fill with colour and you can then move on to another,

All the while you have an octopus in hot pursuit, which you can stun momentarily by pressing the space bar.

If it catches you. you lose one of your three lives. On the other hand, you gain a bonus life if you succeed in filling an entire grid.

You can freeze the game in case of emergencies - and believe me, it has to be an emergency to get you away from this one.

As you progress through the various screens, the action gets faster and the octopus more intelligent. Despite strong reservations about the graphics and sound, this game is recommended.