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In this game, you're an office tea boy whose aim in life is to rise through power and become company president, having a key to the executive washroom. On your way, you have to watch out for taxmen in the lifts, and make sure the strain and stress doesn't raise your blood pressure too high, resulting in a heart attack.

Various objects are scattered about on your way.

You are represented as a little man with a cap, and it looks as though he is carrying a tray. You can see the office building, marked off in stages, with a toilet at the top, marked vacant.

There are lifts going up and down, with taxmen aboard - and they kill you! Bonus objects include telephones, cups of tea, acors, keys, chairs and suitcases, all shown in good detail, with colour well-used. The lifts move very quickly and can sometimes be a bit flickery.

A pleasant tune plays all through the game, and the only other sound effect is a ping, for when you rise up a level, and for collecting objects. There's an option for sound on or off, three levels of difficulty, but no joystick option.

Corporate Climber is a good original game with good sound and visuals, and it comes with adequate instructions.

I reviewed an Electron version on a BBC and found it fast and a little too hard. The speed probably accounts for the flickering graphics. On an Electron the game is much slower and I cleared the first screen first time, whereas I've never managed this on a BBC.

Ian Brettell