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Well, folks, it's cutie time. You control Mr. Frosty - a snowman - and must help him collect snow balls so that he can build a snowman called Shivery Sam. Your activities are impeded by nastty killer penguins and other hazards. The game is really a routine platform game in which you must move up ladders across moving platforms and other areas, in order to collect snowballs. Once a screen is completed, you enter an intermediate screen showing how far you've progressed on the snowman.

Graphically, the game is rather average with ordinary character designs and lots of white with a few blue bits. Animation is very poor. The first action I took when playing the game was to turn down the TV volume. The sound effects are extremely irritating.

The bad news is that the game play is extremely poor. Everything moves at the speed of light and it's almost impossible to control the snowman. Couple this with the very tight tolerances for collisions, and you have an almost impossible game. Only once did I complete the first screen and then I got stuck on the middle bit. The instructions are minimal and I felt that the portion suggesting that you detune the TV to get a snow effect pretty well summed up the quality of the game.

Even at the budget price, this game offers little and I really cannot recommend it.

A.W.