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Dewdropland, Professor Franz Dandruff. Genetically Undesirable Mutants (GUMs). Hey, those wacky programmers are a crazy bunch of guys, aren't they? With a keen sense of humour like this they're wasted behind a keyboard - they should audition for a sitcom or something. Maybe if they concentrated more on their comic-acting abilities they wouldn't churn out distinctly average games like this...

What - Flimbo's Quest in Average Game Shocker? Yes, it's true. Although the game made everybody flip their lids when it was first released because it boasted 32-colour parallax scrolling, now it just seems okayish. It still looks fairly attractive, if a touch muddled on occasions, but the ho-hum gameplay is extremely linear and basically it all boils down to a platform-based shoot-'em-up in the end. It quickly becomes boring fending off the endless waves of tiny enemies (who all require at least three shots from the hero's limited-range shooter) and the platform element fails to stand up in its own right.

The slight tactical aspect to the game (whereby you have to deliver various articles to the shop to complete the level) adds spice but since all this entails is a load of boring backwards-and-a-forwards journeying it hardly helps matter much. There are many more decent games you could be spending your hard-scrounged cash on and Flimbo's Quest doesn't really stand out from the crowd enough to warrant a purchase.