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Unlike some programs, this one does not pretend to be what it isn't; it is basically Pacman, plus or minus a few features. There are four ghosts, a man (instead of a mouth), and dots, and bonus strawberries and lemons to eat.

The ghosts are all white and behave in exactly the same way as each other - they do not have names and personalities like their arcade brothers. The graphics are just user defined characters and are not very clear.

There are four mazes on the 16K version and 12 on the 48K version. You can't choose which one you want. They appear randomly, and there is not a great difference between them.

The strawberries and lemons are randomly placed in the mazes. When you eat a strawberry, you get 100 points and the ghosts turn purple, allowing you to eat them. They do not stay in this state of trepidation for long and give no warning when about to regain their courage.

I quite often found myself being eaten by a white ghost when I was expecting to eat a purple one.

The man is controlled using the unbiguitors cursor control keys. The program remembers the last key pressed, so you can press a different key in advance of the turning.

M.T.