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This clever implementation of the popular pub game makes it possible to get involved in the exciting atmosphere of a championship darts match without knocking chunks of plaster out of the kitchen wall!

The initial screen gives you the choice of starting play or viewing the instructions - which are almost unnecessary as playing the game is simple yet very effectively done. You start a match by entering the names of the two players and selecting who throws first.

The playing screens consist of a realistic dartboard drawn in hi-res, and an area that contains information on the players' current score, who is throwing, how many darts are left to throw, and a scoring table at the bottom of the screen.

Throwing a dart is carried out in two steps. Firstly, a spot moves very quickly around the dartboard and you select the number you wish to aim at by stopping that spot over that number by hitting any key.

Having done that, a small cursor moves rapidly across the scoring table which has doubles, trebles and so on marked on it, and once again you must stop the cursor to determine your score on that throw.

Sounds simple enough, but it proved to be an absorbing task trying to score that magic treble twenty! There are some simple sound effects in the game culminating in a splash of colour and sound when you hit 180!

C.D.