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Gobstopper is a compulsive game with excellent graphics and sound.

There are three screens to survive as you help a small graphics shape by the name of Spodgo to demolish gobstoppers, avoid trains, and dodge lethal ice-cream cones. Unfortunately you have to control him using the Spectrum cursor keys, but as the game progresses he becomes quite nimble.

To begin with Spodgo finds himself on the screen surrounded by gobstoppers and killer toffees. In this game the sweets aren't just bad for your teeth, they're fatal. You have to despatch the gobstoppers with your gob-blaster by pressing the 0 key and avoid the toffees.

An occasional snake wiggles across the screen, robbing you of one of your three lives if you happen to be in its way. Once you've polished off all the gobstoppers, it's on to the next screen, where you have to manoeuvre Spodgo down the screen along narrow pathways, avoiding trains and randomly placed barriers.

Once you reach the bottom, you enter the next screen, where you have to dodge falling ice-cream cones. Your only objective in this screen is to stay alive for a pre-determined amount of time. You then find yourself back at the beginning of the game.

Although the first screen makes the rest of the game seem a little tame by comparison, Gobstopper should keep you happy between meals.