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You play Felix the factory worker in this exciting, extremely difficult game from Micro Power. Killer weevils have overrun your factory and are being generally unpleasant to people. You patrol the factory, spraying any weevils with deadly 'Ubik'.

Not only that, you also have to worry about the deadly ball-bearings. Of course, these don't harm the little swine that you're after, but for you contact is horribly fatal.

The factory itself consists of several moving conveyor belts connected by tubes. The belts can be reversed by picking up a belt lever which you find lying around.

Felix can move around the tubes and jump down very small distances, but never up. You have to be careful not to get these very small distances mixed up with bigger ones or our hero may do kamikaze-style jumps from the end of the conveyor belt.

There are also bonus letters to be picked up. and a special bonus if you get them all.

Also hanging around the place, are vital 'Ubik' spray cans. You can only get one spray with each can so you have to be careful how you use it. Along with these, you can pick up oxygen cannisters to replenish your supply.

When an ordinary weevil reaches one of the flashing mutation chambers, it turns into a 'Purple super weevil'. These move like bullets so it is wise to bump them off as soon as possible.

The controls are not too bad really, although it might have been useful if a couple of extra fingers had been supplied for the emergency panic and reverse-belt buttons.

Infuriatingly difficult and infuriatingly addictive, like many Micro Power games. It's a simple enough idea but has just enough to it to make it an entertaining game. The weevils are devilishly slippery and it's no easy task to finish them off. I could've done with a flame-thrower instead of a one-shot spray can.

Following up the last Felix game, Felix And The Fruit Monsters, this one finds our hero running around a series of conveyor belts and tubes avoiding ball-bearings and attempting to kill the peculiarly Evil Weevils.

Felix is a colourful, noisy variation on the platforms and ladders theme which is so prevalent on the Beeb. Difficult, addictive and, most of all, fun.

This one is odd. The graphics are excellent. All the characters are carefully designed and the way in which they are animated is very impressive.

The sound is good, key response is good, slick presentation well up to the usual Micro Power standard, all the usual features such as quit, freeze, sound off but on playability, this game falls down badly.