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I can manage to do two things at once without too much difficulty, three at a push - but four is too many, I'm afraid. In this game you are faced with four boiler valves to watch. You must dash to whichever is closest to blowing and release the pressure, then move on to the next most critical, and so on.

My biggest problem was that I could not manage to release the pressure in the top two valves. This involves climbing a ladder. I pushed the ladder to what appeared to be the correct position, climbed it, then pressed the key which released the lower valves. Nothing happened. I tried various ladder positions with little success, before deciding that the game was unplayable.

The game has joystick and keyboard options, and there are nine skill levels, which determine the speed steam builds up at. The graphics are attractive and there's a pleasant little tune, but that's no compensation, since the game does not appear to work as it should. Even if it had worked, I suspect that I should have found it boring.

M.N.