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You've probably seen colour adverts with a bear standing on a ladder and waving. Here's what it's about.

You are Ted, who must climb ladders and platforms to get batteries for your new electric truck. You are pursued by Bovver Bears and a "Special Mystery Guest"! When Ted has collected all the batteries on one screen, he drives to the next, more challenging stage. There are two skill levels: "Baby Bear Mode" and "Big Bear Mode".

There are tunes and detail and animation are superb, cartoon-style, flicker-free and extremely realistic. The "attract screens" between games are even better than the game itself - the best I have seen for any game on any machine. There is a beautiful picture of Ted and several screen in large, rounded letters. For example, one offers four volume levels from "shh" to "unBEARable" and informing us we could press 5 to "paws".

Instructions are brief and to the point, without revealing the many surprises.

Bear Bovver should become a classic, like Arcadia, Jet-Pac, Manic Miner and The Hobbit. It is a credit to the Spectrum.

M.T.