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There's only one thing more boring than standing in a field throwing custard pies at someone. And that's bashing away on a computer pretending to throw custard pies at someone.

In the latest release from Leeds-based Comsoft, you have to splatter your opponent by aiming a custard pie at him. The game is for one or two players. In the two player version, the BBC is just acting as a primitive TV game console and not actually taking part in the action.

You do have the option to play against the computer, though. You have to move your little man up and down the screen, avoiding the custard pies which the character on the opposite side is flinging at you. And if you can splatter a pie or two into him, then so much the better.

The sound effects in Custard Pie Fight are the best part of the game. The graphics for the players are all right but the custard pies look like they've come straight from a British Rail canteen.

Come to think of it, this game is similar to the Wild West games of years ago where the custard pies would have been bullets.

Once you've been hit three times, the game is over and you can either start again or put away the computer. Personally, I put away the computer. This game is about as boring as watching skin form on a bowl of custard.