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Lemmings are small furry creatures in Norway with a habit of following each other off the edge of cliffs to their collective doom. In this clever game from Dynabyte, the syndrome has been caught by human beings. They haven't gone bonkers - they're just terrified of being wiped out by Mad Marco, the Paranoid Programmer.

This crazy man, perhaps deranged by an unfavourable review, 'is on the rampage and has blown the suspension bridge to the mainland'. The choice is clear for the populace: either face M.M. or try to lump on one of the rafts in the shark-infested waters and escape.

The player has to guide the raft between the two cliffs in order to save as many of the people as possible. The raft acts like a trampoline, and you have to move it so that the cute boys and girls bounce across to safety.

This is easy enough when there is only one refugee, but can become pretty hairy when there are two and downright frenetic with three.

To help, there is a choice of key controls; proportional or absolute. This means that you either use two keys to move the raft where you like or three to move it to pre-selected positions.

The graphics are very nice with lush green hills and deep blue water between the red land masses. But while the game is great fun to play, it could become boring in the long run since the screen never changes.