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One thing will immediately become clear to you when you play this game: the authors have an extreme dislike of programmer Jeff Minter of Llamasoft! This seems a little unreasonable, since many parts of the game are copied from Minter's Revenge Of The Mutant Camels, our February Game-of-the-Month.

The hero is a rather uninteresting-looking robot whose purpose in life is to water a garden. The robot moves under a running tap, and then to each of six plants causing them to bloom. But ranged against him are a succession of attacking creatures just about as whacky as those in Revenge. They include chess pieces, chickens which explode into drumsticks, witches on broomsticks and glimmering LP records,

You get a different wave of attackers each time you manage to complete a garden, and there are a total of 64 - that's an awful lot of nasties for your money.

One helpful feature is that you can start the game at any of the first 32 waves. But you will still have the long-term challenge of seeing the last 32.

Two things let the game down. The first is a general lack of excitement. I think this is because the energy level on which your life depends rises and falls so rapidly that the loss of a life seems almost a random incident.

The second is the continual sniping at Minter. For example, the initials in the high-score table read: 'Blow a camel's head off today'. And the first attack wave includes graphics cribbed from Revenge and is called 'Remains of the Mutant Camels'.