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Felix In The Factory is one of the first batch of Micro Power cassettes launched for the Electron, and, after playing Killer Gorilla, I was eager to put this one through its paces. I was not disappointed.

It involves climbing up and down ladders, running across conveyor belts and avoiding 'gremlins' in your struggle to retrieve the oil can, which allows you to maintain the level of oil in the generator. To make it more interesting, giant rats run across the screen, which you can kill with rat poison, and to help you past the gremlins you can pick up pitchforks to stab them.

The graphics are smoothly impressive, and to add a little variety the screen layout changes slightly each time.

However, it has its bad points: the controls are a little awkward - A/Z are up/down and P/Cursor Up/Cursor Down are Left/Jump/Right. Why did they not stay with the better controls used in Killer Gorilla? Sound is also used far too sparingly.

Nevertheless, a good game once you have mastered the controls.

Robert Sassoon