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Another arcade classic finds its way onto the Game Boy Color - and this time, it makes sense!

Whether you got frustrated and exhilarated with the original in your local arcade pit, or playing at home on the ZX Spectrum, the latest incarnation, only available in colour, is guaranteed to make the queue at Alton Towers seem shorter.

The point of the game is, and always has been, to create a 'Klax Wave' by joining together three or more blocks of the same colour as they roll off a conveyor belt - hmm. A puzzler where you're timed to link coloured blocks together - very original.

Then again, originality doesn't really matter because, like all puzzlers, it's unbelievably frustrating, and therefore addictive.

At times, the similarly coloured blocks make it stupidly hard to play, but then that's the whole point of a puzzle game. On the Game Boy Color this kind of game excels and, with some good attempts at digitised speech and a reasonably easy listening tune to play along to it will certainly pass an idle hour.

It would however be untrue to say that this version of Klax takes the Game Boy Color's capabilities to the utmost and, beyond vague time-killing challenges, there isn't much of a game here if you want value for money.

I'm afraid this is a game for temporary boredom relief, or pure nostalgia only.

Graphics 60%
Close to the arcade game.

Sound 60%
A good attempt at speech.

Playability 60%
Frustrating but rewarding.

Lastability 40%
Gets boring after a while.

Overall 52%
Just another old arcade game.