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This latest release from Lothlorien is set in a sealed warehouse. Caught in a time warp, you are trapped and there are no doors or windows.

The warehouse is full of blocks. Four of these are purple and, if you can shuffle them so that they are in line, they will magically form a door for your escape.

If you think that this sounds a little like Pengo then you're right. The idea is the same and you can either move a block by pushing it, or destroy it by pressing the fire button on the joystick.

In addition to the purple blocks, there are four gold ones. When you have managed to make the door, you get extra points for waiting behind and pushing the gold blocks through the door. If you're in a hurry to see what the next screen looks like, though, then you can leave them behind.

You can't have penguins in a deserted warehouse, so there are different meanies to avoid in this game. At the start, there's just a spinning character who looks very much like the bug from the Bug-Byte logo. Trapped behind each of the four purple blocks, though, is a deadly robot. So each time you release a piece of the door, another enemy joins the chase.

Once you have completed the first screen, you can get to the next one through the door which you have created. This next screen finds Charlie at one side of a set of six alleyways. Each path has a moving, spinning meany and Charlie must cross, Frogger-like, to the other side of the screen. Then, it's back to screen one again, but this time there are more spinning monsters.

And so the game continues, until you are finally up against four spinners in addition to the robots. What happens after that is not known. Even the person who wrote the game can't get that far!

If you're after an easy game, then this is not for you. It's very tricky and will certainly take some time to complete. But if you like a challenge, this is well worth the money. Sprites are used well and sound effects are good.