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Q*Bert was an enormous hit in the arcades and this version has many of the qualities of that original. The game features a little long-snouted fellow who has to hop around a layout of cubes changing their surface colour.

There are four layouts of cubes and you start with a pyramid with you at the top. Jumping onto a cube changes its colour and on later levels you have to jump on cubes twice to get the desired coour. The cubes are connected diagonally making it easier to play using the keyboard than the joystick. One wrong leap sends you plummeting to your death off the edge.

Dangers await though in the form of Coily the snake, Boris the gorilla, cascading balls who try to catch you and a black hole that appears on random cubes. Boris is particularly annoyed if you steal his banana but this gives you double points for each cube. You can shake off your pursuers by jumping on a transporter disc leaving them to fall to their deaths or by using a rota hat to move up and down levels.

P. Colourful graphics and clever cube layouts.
P. Quick thinking and action required to survive.
P. Lots of levels with some getting really hard.

N. Instructions only appear once at the start of the game.
N. Character graphics can be flickery.