Entering this Country Garden you are greeted with a few bars from a familiar English folk-song and given the opportunity to play Supersoft's version of Centipede.

The action is fast and the graphics and sound perfectly acceptable, but the only thing that ever crosses the screen (apart from the centipede) is a snail, and that lives up to its name by being about as difficult to hit as a garden wall. Don't Supersoft know that even Little Miss Muffit would miss spiders if they didn't appear in a game of Centipede?

Various unidentifiable creatures drop from above at high speed, but assuming you've got your finger on the repeat fire button you're going to hit them before they hit you, so they don't pose much of a threat.

The ease of the game makes possible an interesting challenge. I think I must be the first person to wipe out every mushroom on the screen in Centipede.

The choice of movement keys (A and S for left and right, W for up, Z down and Return for fire) is ridiculously awkward so if you don't have a joystick you should think twice before shelling out for this game.

The rest of us may go for the sound and the speed but there isn't much else here to tempt the insect-slayer.