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It's dinner time for the Ghouls in the Spectre's Lair and you're on the menu!

There are four screens to this great new game for the BBC micro. In each screen you must make your way from the bottom of the screen to the top, collecting coins and swallowing the occasional power pill.

Being an athletic little graphics shape, you can leap from platform to platform, but all sorts of hazards await you. The floors are littered with spikes and joined only by moving platforms that can send you tumbling to your doom.

And if all that wasn't enough, there's the Ghoul patrolling the screen, sinking through the floors, its only interest being to deprive you of life and limb.

Yon Ghoul's dismal expression twists into a smile every time you bite the dust, and its approach is heralded by a mounting crescendo of ghostly music.

You can get rid of him for a few moments by swallowing a power pill. Ghouls is one of Program Power's best games yet. It's excellently presented, with easy control keys and brilliant graphics.

Some impressive sound effects accompany the action, and each time you reach the top of the screen you are rewarded with a tune. Music also plays while the program loads, but you can turn the sound off at any time. Every time you lose one of your four lives, the screen wipes and the display is rebuilt in a very impressive manner. There's a time limit on each screen, and the taster you complete it, the larger your bonus.

Ghouls is similar to a number of other programs on the market but excellent graphics, exciting sound and fast action make this a cut above the rest.