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The company that brought us Animated Strip Poker has now sensibly turned its attention to other less risque and sexist computerised gambling games. Lucky Fruits as you probably guessed is a fruit machine game boasting nudges, holds, reverse, bonus and mystery wins as weU as gamble features. It is claimed to be very much like the real thing and on viewing the graphics I had to agree.

The instructions are clear but I noticed a number of spelling errors. If spelling errors such as "achived" and "Seris" (instead of achieved and series) get through then one wonders how weU the program has been error checked.

Playing the fruit machine is unfortunately not as realistic as the initial graphic screen. The scroUing is poor and nudging reels up and down does not always give the results that it should. I did like the Gamble feature which is just like machines I have thrown money away on in my misspent youth.

The program is written in BASIC and, while there's no harm in that, the actual execution is not the best that could be achieved in that language. One can look at the various ways of winning by pressing the 'H' key, but on returning to the normal fruit machine screen find that you suddenly have extra holds on the three reels.

The whole program smacks of a rush to get it published rather than a careful programming and debugging process. There are better fruit machine simulations on the market and I would not recommend this game.

C.G.