Ever been worried about being eaten? Well, here you are a nice fat little fish called Thwitchy Thwilly plucked from your watery wonderland and thrown into the oven of a first class restaurant.

Trapped in the oven you find flames licking along the bottom of the screen - put them out or your goose (do I mean trout?) is cooked. Thwitchy automatically drops towards the flames so you have to have a light touch on the joystick or keys to avoid fatal crashes. The flames are extinguished by collecting the drops of condensation that form at the top of the oven and releasing them onto the fire below.

Needless to say things aren't as simple as that and there are a variety of hazards to overcome. You can select any one of six screens to start at, but some are much harder than others and you would be wise to begin with the first screen that appears on the demo run. Different dangers appear on each of the ten screens but one ever-present risk is the flames that shoot up a column to try and fry you.

Other threats are flying pieces of food, a rotating spit and the infamous animal of the title - the restaurant's pet dog Fatty 'Schizo' Henry who is very fond of fish.

On each screen there are also layers through which a droplet of water cannot pass. Then you have the tough job of trying to dip below these to release your burden without getting hit by a flame. It is annoying that every time you lose a life all your fire-fighting is undone and you start again in a sizzling hot oven.

The graphics are chunky and there is only one basic screen with variations but it's an original game concept and very well packaged for the unexpanded Vic. There are no fancy tunes but some oven-like sound effects as you rush about trying to save your bacon, er...sole?

You'll need strong arms to play this one, since you're constantly on the go. Putting out flames with drips is one thing, but you've also got to keep Thwitchy from falling into the deadly fire

I'm not sure what animal Thwitchy is supposed to be, but since it comes from an aquarium, the thing it looks most likely to be is an octopus. This gives you an idea of the graphics - not terrific, but bearable.

The sound is acceptable, with all the appropriate noises whooshing out of your TV, and there's the added bonus of you being able to start on any one of ten screens. One of the better Vic games.

Just because a game is on the unexpanded Vic doesn't mean you have to put up with it if it's boring, which this one is.

Whatever that creature is that's trying to keep out of the cooking pot, I don't think I'd like to face it on a plate. It looks suspiciously like a Vic graphics character to me.

Although the game has ten screens, they're all basically the same, with only the barriers varying. I prefer a little more interest on the menu.