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What's this, Digger? Sounds like an Australian down a coal mine. Let's load it and see what happens (Loads program and reads title page). "By the Keyboard Kid," says the screen. Yawn.

The title page shows the controls, so I know what to do. Up, down, left, right and pump. Pump? Nothing here about mending punctures (re-reads minimal instructions on package). Ah. It seems there's this garden plagued by things called Footas and Pubars which are highly averse to being pumped up with said pump.

They have a tendency to explode. I'm sure I would too. Footars can breathe fire and gamma rays which is no good for the tomatoes so it's up to you to do something about it.

It only took a couple of goes to form an opinion about Digger. The sound was like the wind going out of a rubber duck. The graphics were slow and jerky with nasty glitches left on the screen when the beasts explode and the program crashed twice for no reason and had to be re-loaded.

In a word, forget it. I have.