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This is a version of the arcade game Pengo, in which your character, transformed from a penguin to a dodo - presumably for copyright reasons! - has to avoid a swarm of Snow Bees.

The playing area is a rectangular random maze of ice blocks. Both Dodo and the bees can destroy the blocks, but Dodo can also push a single block which slides along the screen squashing any bees in its path. If any bee is touching an ice block which Dodo destroys, then the bee is also destroyed.

The cassette insert is amusing, the instructions are supplied on an extra piece of card and are clear and nicely presented, although containing a few grammatical errors.

The game is fast and needs very quick reactions. Graphics, colour and sound are excellent, but movement is of the jerky, square to square variety.

You have a choice of keyboard or Kempston/AGF joystick controllers, the keys are the "arrow" keys 5,6,7 and 8 and need some practice to master. Response is good, but you need the joystick to get really high scores.

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