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This is another excellent program from Ocean. This time set in a fairground. You have to guide your man up the fairground track to rescue a young lady held captive by Kong at the top. He regularly releases cars down the roller coaster. You can avoid the cars by climbing out of the way, or you can destroy them by using your bombs, but destroyed cars are quickly replaced!

If one of the cars hits you then you are knocked off the track and lose one of your four lives. There are four screens, and in later screens you have to avoid waltzers, hobby horses, etc. On each successive screen, the track becomes more complex and the care more difficult to avoid.

Scoring depends upon the number of cars destroyed, and the time taken. There is a complex system of bonuses to add to the interest. A neat display below the screen lets you know exactly how you are doing. The game can be played either using keyboard or joystick, but is much more fun with a joystick.

Graphics and sound are very well done, although an option to play without sound might be a good idea: however good it may be, the same tune becomes repetitive after a while.

A very playable and enjoyable game, which kept me interested for hours. One small criticism, however, why not a man being rescued by a woman? Good value for money.