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Ants seem to be all the rage at the moment. Inspired no doubt by Ant Attack, Pedro and a host of others, the latest is Fire Ant for the Commodore 64.

Your character (an ant) and the queen are peacefully minding their own business in a quiet semi-detached clump of soil when a scorpion approaches, knocks you into a hole and carts your beloved queen ant away.

Your sole purpose in life now is to rescue the queen by passing through all eight chambers without being made into an ant sandwich for the benefit of a hungry scorpion.

I should mention that you'll need a joystick to play this game - it doesn't work with the keyboard, though don't ask me why!

The game isn't terribly exciting. In fact, it's rather slow. The claim that it's a fast action machine code game is not, in my opinion, true. Machine code it may be, but that doesn't automatically make a game good.