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Yet another arcade conversion! Some of us must have been doing something good in a previous life! This time it's Konami's Mikie, set in an American High School and converted by Peter Johnson. Can you help Mikie collect parts of a letter to his girlfriend and then deliver it whilst avoiding the teacher, the manic janitor, the chef and the delights of kissing the dancing girls?

The letter is assembled by collecting hearts found around the school in classrooms, the locker room, canteen, gymnasium and yard. Mikie has various bizarre collecting methods such as the Hip-Zap which shifts fellow students from their seats. The graphics are adequate although there is a dreadful attribute problem which displays the figures as wire models and not solid characters.

Certainly a lot of fun and compulsively easy to play. In a quiet games month, this could have scored a lot higher and had a much longer review. In recompense, there's a prize for the first arcade reader to send in the (correct) message which Mikie delivers to his girlfriend.

Dave ReederDave Fifield