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At last! Some decent software for the Amstrad is appearing.

In this Q*Bert game from Microbyte you have to guide our long-nosed friend round the screen, hopping from cube to cube. As he hops on to a block it changes colour. Change all the blocks on the screen and you move to the next one.

On early levels, it only takes one hop to change the cube but on harder levels you'll need to or three jumps on to a square before it becomes the right colour.

Like the original arcade version of the game, there are various creatures chasing you round the screen and, if you touch one, you'll lose a life.

Coily is a snake while Boris is a Gorilla. If you manage to catch Boris's banana you get double points.

There's a strange-looking hat with a helicopter blade on top. If you get this, you can fly up or down the screen by two levels to escape the approaching aliens.

The game has a choice of ten levels, each with four different screens, so it should keep you amused for some time.

The graphics are good on our colour monitor but, like all Amstrad games, it'll lose a lot on a green screen.

Sound is average, though you can of course turn it down if you want.

Er*Bert is certainly among the best of the limited range of Amstrad software currently available.