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Think of criminals and you perhaps imagine people who steal or even kill to earn their title. Such characters deserve their time behind bars! Chester is a new breed of criminal. He doesn't so much rob items from passers-by than steal their attention by his disgraceful apparel - leopard skin, which he can't really help, and an appalling line in sunglasses and white boots, while he can! On top of this, he rides about Hip City on a polka-dot motorbike. Now if this doesn't warrant a criminal record we don't know what does!

All hail Mean Eugine and his Four Corners Zoo! After witnessing Chester's sad antics he takes it upon himself to lock this tragically hip wild-life away and throw away the key. Even better, the shrewd Zoo Keeper dismantles the cool cat's offensive mode of transport and scatters the pieces across Four Corners Zoo. Great! Of course, Chester has no intentions of having his style cramped, no matter how clueless this style is, and so sets out to recover his cred along with his bike bits. Are there any volunteers who might help him do so?

Packets of crispy snacks and any poor platform game you care to mention.

Guide Chester through Four Corners Zoo. Negotiate the platforms and recover the pieces of Chester's bike in the process so that he may escape.

Time spent behind bars has prompted Chester to take up a new hobby. Playing his guitar smooths out all these bad vibes whilst Chester creates a few of his own, much to the torture of many furry pairs of ears! Chester's musical skills are so diabolical that his mad twanging of the occasional discarded guitar has dangerous zoo animals vacating the area!

Until now nobody has considered the state of cheetah's feet as they charge about at speeds in excess of sixty miles per hour. Chester, however, is at least wise enough to lessen the wear and tear by slipping into a pair of sneakers whenever he feels it necessary to exercise his spindly legs.

Chester may claim the opposite, but here he finds it all too easy to be cheesy. Selling crisps is one thing (being the mascot of Cheetohs snacks), but starring in a mediocre exploration game is something else. Exploration is the best way to describe the limited gameplay of bumping on the odd sprite and collecting coins.

The graphics are the game's best point - well-drawn and coloured and fairly well animated. However, the gameplay is nowhere near as accomplished, being particularly slow as well as sparse. Instantly forgettable.

Chester Cheetah presents itself as a contender for the most boring game ever written. It's absolutely crying out for at least a handful of the interesting additives found in the snacks from which the character is derived. Certainly the 'E' additive, namely Excitement, is greatly lacking!

Chester is a slow and cumbersome character who's awkward response to the control pad turns most players into a wild animal, screaming and scratching at the TV screen in anger. The game might look like fun but I can assure you that this is not the case. A 'Terry the Tortoise' game would probably move along faster than this!

Besides which, Chester is far too obscure a character to warrant any kind of interest outside the crisps isle in Tesco's or breathing Chester's cheesy-snack breath in someone's face - an experience that is infinitely more pleasant than playing this load of rubbish.

Presentation 76%
P. The intro sequence is bright and colourful. The whole cart is presented in a freaky comic style.
N. No really useful options.

Graphics 78%
P. A bold use of colour and the use of large sprites give the game a unique and attractive look.
N. Unfortunately, the whole thing is animated by the Captain Pugwash society of basic animation.

Sound 76%
P. Clear sound effects.
N. Clearly awful music.

Playability 39%
N. Very slow. Very boring, even the occasional visual gag fails to enliven the proceedings.

Lastability 26%
P. One go and Chester's chucked - into the nearest bin. There's nothing here that warrants further play of any description.

Overall 33%
A cheesy kind of platform game if ever there was one! Chester Cheetah is slow, tedious and about as much fun as sticking your head down a public latrine.