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This is another of those twee little games that crop up so often on the budget racks. Originally on the C64, this game has made it with relatively few changes onto the humble Speccy.

Mad Nurse is one of those games in which you are snowed under with work and the idea is to keep up with it.

In this game you are the nurse in charge of a children's ward. Nice nursey has just put all the little horrors to bed but they all start crawling out of their cots. You have to prevent them drinking out of the medicine bottles, touching the electronic power points and falling down lift shafts - very gory. Not for the faint hearted this one I can tell you.

You have three trainee nurses to start with and each one is allowed three mishaps before being sacked. However, to help you the hospital has thoughtfully supplied you with stun-gas with which to subdue your rascally charges.

The game is played on three floors of the hospital, the screen display shows them all at the same time. The lift runs down one side of the screen allowing your character access to all floors. The rooms are filled with various bits of furniture and the layout of each room seems to change as each game is played.

The graphics are very good and clear, and the interlude graphics are very good as well: big ugly pictures of nurse showing her in glorious detail - also not for the faint of heart!

The game is actually very simple. All you do is switch between floors, picking up babies and putting them back in their cots - not too many to a cot, mind! This actually makes for a very playable and pleasing game, believe it or not. Nothing drastic, but it is well worth the money and, at last, we have that non-destructive game.

Needs a bit of strategic thinking too!