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Dragon owners have been kept waiting long enough for a decent version of Burger Time. It's a shame that Blaby couldn't provide it. This version of the classic arcade game is one of the poorest games that I have ever seen on the Dragon.

For a start, the actual game is in black and white. Although the opening title is printed in green, the loading screen and the actual game both have no colour.

In Burger Time, you play the part of a chef. Your job is to put together three hamburgers whose ingredients are around the screen. Each burger has two pieces of bun for the top and bottom, and meat and some lettuce. As you walk over a piece, it falls down onto the bun below and the burger is gradually built up.

But life isn't easy for the chef. He is being chased by a tomato, an egg and a sausage.

Defence comes in the form of a pepper pot - a quick shake of pepper in front of a pursuing piece of sausage and it's well and truly paralysed. You get five shakes of pepper on each level and the pepper pot is filled each time you lose a life.

Another way of trapping the ingredients which are chasing you is to catch them under a slice of burger as you make it fall. Also, anything standing on top of the burger will fall to its doom. On the Blaby version, though, this death by standing on top of a piece of burger does not work.

Speed and timing is the secret of the original Burger Time. This version has neither. The game plays so slowly that most of the fun just isn't there. All action stops while a piece of burger falls which makes the game too slow. The sound effects are almost as dismal as the graphics in this game. A single bar of the death march plays when you lose a life, and this tune is repeated, painfully slowly, when you have no more lives left.

If you've been waiting for a Burger Time for your Dragon, I suggest that you carry on waiting. If you're that desperate for this game, you'll be very disappointed if you actually spend the money.