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Software Projects seem to have the uncanny knack of producing more and more platform games. This is another one.

For those of you not looking for original, entertaining stuff you'd do well to buy this. An endless amount of screens with ever increasing difficulty, and after you've completed eight, there's not a lot left to see, since they just repeat themselves again, and again...

Little Ledgie, the guy who's got to do all the climbing, has got a myriad of nasties to contend with, including sentient barrels (they'll be talking next!), meteorite storms and 'strange and perilous guardians', which comes in various shapes and sizes.

The precious stones Ledgic's got to get are all white, flashing and square, which makes them easy to identify with for some of us, eh? The rest of the graphical characters are nicely detailed, but nothing exciting.

The various ways in which you're attacked, have at least got some originality, such as meteors destroying the platforms as they fall.

There's a lot of noise going on in the background, a tune (wow) and sound effects. But both, or either, of these can be shut off by simply pressing a key sheer luxury on the noisy Beeb. What I found interesting was the fact that you could get to the next level by pressing the @ key. If you do decide to pull this one, you'll notice your score goes up as if you'd finished the screen properly. I managed to do all 100 this way - good, innit?

Anyway, after all's said and done, a presentable platform job, which wouldn't look amiss on anyone's shelf, but might never get played.