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Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum. I smell the blood of an Englishman! Transported light years back to the days when fairy tales were my main reading matter, I loaded the cassette...

The game matched my expectations and I ventured with Jack up the beanstalk to a magic land where giants, treasures and magic abound.

Remember Jack and the Beanstalk? Jack's mum sent him to the market to sell Daisy the cow. On the way he was conned and swapped her for a handful of beans. With a clip round the ear, he was sent to bed and the beans thrown out of the window where, lo and behold, a giant beanstalk grew overnight...

Next day Jack made good his escape, legged it up the beanstalk and went to seek his fortune!

For those of you who can't remember the rest of the story, your chance has come to play it out in a superbly illustrated game. Only this time you have the power to control Jack's destiny - to steal the goose that lays the golden eggs so that Jack and his mum can live happily ever after.

Jack starts his adventure at the foot of the beanstalk. With his eyes peeled for gigantic spiders and kamikaze birds, he nips up the beanstalk - one false move and he plunges to the ground. Certain objects must be picked up on the screen to enable him to move on - a fact not mentioned in the instructions.

Having mastered the beanstalk, Jack has to scale a brick wall into the castle, free the goose from her cage and then tackle the giant.

The graphics are superb, with each screen resembling an illustrator's drawing. The game is also difficult to master as each screen poses its own problems.

Jack And The Beanstalk is definitely a game well worth buying.