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This offering is a tunneling game in which you must dig through rock, collecting gold nuggets as you go. Your progress is impeded by three gnashers that follow you through the tunnels and eat you if they catch you.

When you have managed to feed three miners to the gnashers, the game is ended. Additional features are that you can block tunnels by dislodging underground rocks, or drop the rocks onto the gnashers to gain bonus points.

The whole game is a sort of underground Pac Man, where gold bars take the place of the fruit and the gnashers double for the ghosts. I think that the random tunnels produced by this game are an improvement on Pac Man's fixed grid/maze.

A high score feature is provided, as is a variable speed (1-9). On Speed 1, it's extremely fast. Speed 9 is provided specifically for young children.

The graphics are good and it's fun to play, but one disappointing aspect of the game is that it is possible to find a screen position where the gnashers never find you. You can just sit there and watch the stupid creatures explore every tunnel except the one you are in.

M.B.