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If we told you that the star of the latest Electric Dreams release was a tubby, stout swigging mermaid you wouldn't believe us, would you? Well, it's true. Her name is Myrtle and she'll soon be giving Sam Fox a run for her money in the sex appeal stakes!

Myrtle is after a man - Gormless Gordon the diver to be exact. The only problem is that Gordon isn't that keen on poor old Myrtle.

At the start of the game you see Gordon leap off the end of a pier in order to escape Myrtle's romantic intentions. He swims off, hides under a wreck and gets himself trapped. Stupidly, forgetting that he won't be able to breathe underwater forever, Gordon goes to sleep.

While Gormless s oblivious to the danger he's in, our heroine Myrtle is frantically trying to find a way to rescue him. And this is where you come in.

Myrtle has to wend her way through an undersea maze solving problems discovering useful objects - like dynamite and the bottles of stout she needs to swig to keep her going.

She must also avoid the dangerous sea creatures like squids and lobsters which drain her energy on contact.

Myrtle must use dynamite to blast holes in the reef and discover the lamps which help her to see in the dark undersea caverns. She must also keep an eye on Gordon's air-supply - represented in icon form at the top of the screen.

Mermaid is a pretty straightforward maze-style arcade adventure. But it's lots of fun to play. The extremely colourful cartoon style graphics are fun to look at and well animated.

It's a long time since a "cute" game like this appeared on the scene - and a welcome change from all the terribly serious stuff around at the moment.