Bakery Bun Fight

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Once upon a time, in the long ago days when I was a student, I used to work in a bakery as a summer job. I found it was both great fun and hard work. The same goes for Squirrel Soft ware's Bun Fun.

The idea is that you are a worker in a bun factory. Cakes pass in front of you on a conveyor belt and it's your job to put on the icing.

Your mate further along the belt puts on the walnuts and you get paid piecework.

The more perfect cakes you make the more you earn. The moreyou waste the less you take home.

Sadly, your mate has just cleared off to do some fishing and you're left to do both the icing and the walnuts. Ohyes, and you mustn 7 make too much mess or the machine will jam!

With five levels of difficulty andfive choices of how long you want to play, Bun Fun is fast and furious.

Strictly for those not of a nervous disposition, it's a game calling forfast reactions - the kind of game where an 11-year-old will beat his or herparents every time.

Easy to learn, well explained and fun to play, it's a game that will drive you mad ... but you won't mind.

However there is one drawback - unlike my time at the bakery, you can't eat the end products.

Nigel Peters