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First came Donkey Kong, then Donkey Kong Junior and now... Dinky Kong!

In this version you take the role of a soldier who marches rather than runs! Other than that, the game is the same as the original. The object is to climb the various platforms and rescue the captured girl at the top, avoiding fast rolling barrels being thrown down by Kong.

One interesting feature are the hearts planets at random on the platforms. These may be picked up for extra points but leave holes in the runways. Barrels that roll over these holes will fall through to the platform below, although you may jump over them.

I'm sorry to say that this version fell below standard although the graphics were quite good. Two especially annoying points I found were that the program had to be loaded in two sections - the tape recorder had to be stopped and restarted (retyping 'CLOAD""').

And if you replied no to the reply option at the end, the program will "new" itself thus clearing the memory.

The game gets rather monotonous as only one variation screen is used which is repeated, although fireballs are introduced at higher levels.

Dinkey Kong is available from Gloucestershire-based Severn Software for the Oric-1 at £6.95.