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Juice isn't exactly based on a new idea, being one of the Q'Bert-type "jumping on squares to change their colour" games. However, this has been reworked sufficiently to make it interestingly different. The blocks have been replaced by flat chessboard-like playing areas (sometimes with holes in), and the characters altered.

Juice has an electrical theme. Your character has to complete a circuit from one corner to the other by jumping on each square. Baddies have to be avoided; Killerwatt pursues you until you lure him to his death. Flash will undo your work as he jumps about, and jumping on Recharge freezes the baddies for a while.

Every now and again, the successful player reaches a bonus screen with no baddies. Here you have to complete the circuit between the opposite corners within a time limit, rather than changing every square.

I occasionally had trouble keeping my character under control, but overall this is a nice variation on the theme and I enjoyed it.

P.G.