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If you play around with your computer today, you're in for a big surprise. For all the bears that ever there was are out for a teddy bear's video game!

Bear Bovver is a cute little game, based on that arcade favourite Burger Time. But instead of burgers and nasty tomatoes, you get batteries and Bovver Bears! Ted is out to find more batteries for his electric car which is rapidly running out of power.

He comes across a Burget Time-style grid of ladders and platforms and must climb them to get the batteries and knock them down to power his battery car.

All the while the Bovver Bears - complete with braces and big boots - are out to get him! Ted is armed with some time bombs which will help him fight off the bad Bovver Bears, but they soon come back and race after our hero. The graphics on this game are simple but very effective - the walking action of Ted and the Bovver Bears, is a real joy to watch. The author has come up with a nice line in typography too - the titles and instructions are really attractive.

Game action is addictive and fast-moving - you'll have to have a quick keyboard finger to stay out in front of the mean old Bovver Bears.

One gripe, however. The inlay instructions included with the tape are just not adequate. Simply giving the control keys isn't good enough. When you reach the end of a screen, Ted is supposed to drive off in his battery car, but I just couldn't work out how to stop him running into the rest of the batteries dropped down from the ladder maze! No instructions about that anywhere!

A nice feature of the game is the baby bear mode which enables you to practise the game without getting bovvered!

A great game for the younger computer game fan, Bear Bovver comes from Artic Computing and will set you back around £5.50.