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Bouncing a giant tennis ball along a path hundreds of feet above ground level may not sound the most exciting scenario but Bounder is a ridiculously addictive game.

In theory, it's just a question of bouncing the ball on the grey paving stones and jumping over or around any obstacles. However, it's almost impossible to do and therefore incredibly frustrating which compels you to have "just one more go".

Your problems are aggravated by the weird and wonderful selection of nasties that are thrown against you.

There are missiles to explode you, darts to burst you or impassable walls to trap you and a fiendish range of deadly traps. These are laid under stones marked with giant question marks and lure you to them by the promise of bonus points or extra lives. However, some contain mouths that will chomp you or even two boxing gloves that appear and pound you.

At the end of a run which consists of several screens is a bonus screen where you can leap about harmless question marks racking up the bonuses until you run out of jumps. Unfortunately there's always a catch as to get the jumps to get the bonuses you have to risk the question marks on the main screens.

Ten levels of "fun" make this torture excellent value for money.