Spent all your cash on a BBC and nothing left to buy games? Blue Ribbon rush to your assitance with this graphically good spin-off in the Q-Man soap saga. Instead of hopping round an Aztec pyramid, Q-Man's Brother hops round an aerial walkway, but the goal remains the same. Turn the square a different colour, and avoid the predators. In this game you are pursued by a multi-coloured bucket and a paint roller which erases your squares. To help you keep on top of things, smart bombs are available in limited supply, with a new one after each screen. Colour is used to good effect, as is an impressive sound performance, and the graphics are polished, with the exception of Ie frere de Q-Man, who sports an awful pair of Polaroids.

This game is not for the hardened arcade-ad ven t u reo The aliens come down one at a time in monotonous regularity, some times occupying the same square as your imminent new life, and there seems to be no variation in layout apart from colour. One good design seems to be no variation in layout apart from colour. One good design detail is the ability to restat the game after pressing BREAK by accident, and the low cost makes pirating virtually unnecessary. I would recommend this game for new BBC owners and younger video freaks who can bash away for hours quite happily, but don't come in this direction in the quest for originality.

D.A.