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A very good game, this - the trouble is, it might just remind you of those outstanding home decorating jobs you should be doing instead of sitting about playing computer games. You are Painter Patrick. Your job is to spray paint round 24 pots of paint standing in a room, while trying to evade capture by a decorator-eating paint-roller.

Each pot your surround recharges your dwindling paint supply. As each room is completed, the screen clears and the game re-starts. But you are now pursued by more paint rollers. You move around the room using the O and P kefts for left and right and Q and A for up and down - a convenient arrangement, I found. You can also press H to suspend the game while you draw breath or take a worker's tea break.

A score recording facility enables inter-decorator competition.

The program loaded easily and I found the on-screen instructions easy to follow. Arcade quality graphics, and good use of sound to simulate aerosols puffing and paint rollers laughing as you tumble to the floor.

Great fun - recommended.

D.J.