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You're the snake in Laser Snaker and your mission is to penetrate egg plantations. The eggs are multi-coloured and spread randomly about a succession of screens, here called sheets.

You start as just the snake's head and by swallowing eggs you grow a section at a time.

In the long run, it's better to zap the eggs with your laser than eat them, because it's always possible to bump into your own tail when it gets long enough, resulting in the loss of one of three lives.

The same goes for bumping into anything else - the walls, blocks which throb on and off called chrystoids, and creatures called Aggranoids and Viproids.

Aggronoids look like green balls of fluff with eyes, and bounce around mischievously evading your fire. A Viprold is a blue snake which, like you, eats eggs and twists and turns.

The object is to graduate to sheet 15, where a secret symbol is to be revealed. This involves clearing the eggs completely off some sheets, and reaching things called power stones embedded in mazes on other screens.

This is no mean feat, even at the lowest of ten speed levels and five difficulty levels. Because they know it's hard, Poppysoft are offering a cash prize to whoever cracks it before April.

I foresee much agonizing wrist-strain with this one as people wrestle with their Kempstons far into the night.