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Don't put all your eggs in one basket when playing this game as they're likely to be grabbed by a strange winged egg-snatcher.

Beaky And The Egg Snatchers is the latest release from Fantasy Software, the boys who brought us The Pyramid. You take the part of Beaky, a small white bird, and the game is all about looking after your eggs in a multi-screen game.

Screen one has you plucking eggs from out of the mouths of egg snatchers. The eggs rest on a number of small platforms on the screen and the egg snatchers are swooping down and removing them. Your task is to apprehend the nasties in mid-flight with your gun. The egg will then fall from their claws and you must catch it before it hits the ground and ends up as an omelette.

Once you have an egg, you take it to the nest which is at the bottom of the screen where it remains until needed for the other screens.

You can collect up to nine eggs and you can quit this first level at any time as long as you have at least one egg.

Screen two is similar in layout to the first one.

Once you become a master at the first three screens then there are three more skill levels. The total of twelve screens has four egg-catching screens, four spinning disk ones and four with chicks.

Sound effects are in the game, including birdie noises and control is via a joystick or the keyboard.

This is a novel game. The graphics are good and some of the movement effects are quite clever.