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Mad Marco is on the rampage and has blown up the bridge to the mainland. The people are panicking, jumping into shark-infested waters rather than facing him. You are lifeboat Lennie, and using your raft, must bounce the people to the other side, avoiding sharks and Mad Marco with his dynamite.

The scenery in Lemming Syndrome is well drawn, though motionless, and includes a blown-up bridge over a river, and hills. The moveable objects - your lifeboat, people, sharks and dynamite - travel smoothly.

You can alter the speed of the game and thus degree of difficulity, have sound on or off, and you can choose to control your raft in proportional mode the raft moves left or right a pixel ata time; in absolute, there are three set positions to which the raft may move - left, middle and right. Using the absolute method is much easier. The only option Lemming Syndrome lacks is a joystick.

Lemming Syndrome has excellent graphics, good sound, is very flexible with its many options, and is supplied with good instructions. Underneath the fancy graphics, and a well thought out background around Mad Marco blowing up the bridge, Lemming Syndrome is just a variation on the BREAKOUT theme. It's the same all the way though and, though quite a testing game, it becomes boring.

Ian Brettell