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Jack The Nipper is a bad lad and the worse he gets, the higher you score. Through Jack you can live out your fantasies and do all of those despicable things that you were too wimpish to do when you were a kid.

The key to this game is to think really wicked thoughts. As you pick up a pot of glue, for example, you have to recall all of the shops and houses you visited and imagine a way to create the maximum nuisance value.

Everyone knows that Jack is a brat, though his mother probably things he's an angel! Armed with his trusty peashooter he can take pot shots at passers-by but he has to be prepared to run or they'll tan his hide.

What Jack gets up to is entirely up to you. If you do anything naughty you'll score a few points but the real rewards come when you're downright evil. Wreaking revenge on the park keeper can be fun but gumming up the works in a denture factory is wickedly rewarding.

Although the game was well received on the Spectrum, I felt that it lacked a certain addictive quality. The screens look good, the sound is fine but solving the puzzles of what to do with key objects held little excitement for me.