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Pitman Seven is a new game from a recently-formed company, Visions.

Two teams of seven men are trapped on the fifth level of an underground mine. Your task is to guide each one to the surface through the many tunnels and shafts. Just to make things a little more interesting, rocks are cascadng towards you at a frightening velocity. There are a number of ways to avoid these: to jump over them, go through a hatchway onto another level or jump and hang on to bar above parts of the tunnels. If this is not enough, it is then necessary to guide the other team through tunnels filing with a poisonous gas. Gas suits are available but getting them can be a problem.

Though the scenario may be different, the screen display and basics of the game are the same as Donkey Kong, etc. Fortunately, a number of additions have been made to make it rather more varied and exciting game than Donkey Kong itself. The quality of graphics is quite good, though a little jerky and not as detailed as soon of the other games I have seen.

In many ways, it comes as an advanced version of Donkey Kong, which will appeal to Donkey Kong addicts, but with a new storyline, whch gives it new life.

Pitman Seven must rate as one of the better copies of arcade games. Fortunately, the extended scenario puts it out as a great game in its own right, and a very good one at that!