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Whoever dreamt this one up should be wreathed in manacles and incarcerated in some dank and horrid place. Like Belgium. Never has a game infuriated me so! I can take legions of alien craft, maniac miners, rampaging apes... even Q*Bert! But this... Words fail me.

Leaping Lenny stands at the bottom of the screen. Above him rattle eight conveyor belts, each one punctuated by gaps. For reasons best known to himself, Lenny wants to climb the screen and so you must leap him through the moving gaps. If you mistime your jump, you'll brain yourself on the above conveyor and collapse unconscious in a heap.

The gaps become more numerous the higher you get, so unless you move fast you'll plummet back to the level you've just leapt from. If you ask me, the entire thing is just impossible. Apparently there are nasties to hinder your progress on subsequent sheets but I can't confirm this. I haven't made it that far.

I once got halfway up sheet one but brained myself at an inopportune moment and so toppled hopelessly back to the start. Believe me, the language to be heard wasn't sweet. This is one of those games in which the graphics are pretty incidental. There's little to be seen - although Lenny *is* nicely animated. The gameplay is the thing - and here it couldn't be tougher.

Now if you don't mind, I think I'll go check my blood pressure.