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This is a platform game where you, controlling Mr Robot, must collect all the dots along different levels, negotiating trampolines. short-fused dynamite, ladders, escalators, poles, magnets and lots of similar devices.

Along the way you have to avoid the robot-hating 'alienfires' which can only be destroyed if you have picked up an energizer token.

In a way the game is a cross between Donkey Kong and Pac-Man, with the platforms and fireballs of the former, and the power-pill guzzling of the latter. There are 22 screens for you to bounce, climb, jump and laugh through and you can choose which one to begin on. So far, so unremarkable.

What makes Mr. Robot stand out from the crowd is the ingenious Robot Factory of the title. This is simple to use and allows you to design your own screens. Switch to this function and you can assemble the programmed components in a layout of your choice, creating any level of game, from the mindlessly easy to the nigh impossible.

In the tape version of the game, the factory does not allow you to save your finished screens, nor mix it with others. You are also limited to the one screen of your own.

Games players who still haven't had their fill of platforms should find some intriguing challenges here, and should be satisfied by the cartoon-style graphics. The sound is kept to a minimum with no tunes. There is a switch off facility but it's not really worth the trouble.

Whether you decide to buy it is up to you of course, but it is an entertaining, well thought out and fun cassette incorporating a unique customising feature which will hopefully make other software houses take notice.

What made this game so addictive wasn't just the terrific 22 screens of platform jumping, but also the ability to create your own designs.

I really appreciated the ability to switch between screens, since I couldn't complete most of them, and made up some nice easy layouts of my own.

This game will be perfect for masochists because they can make things as diabolical as they like.

Control of the game is a little thoughtless since there is no keyboard option. And what about the sound? A beep here or there hardly satisfies a hardened arcade addict, eh?

On the other hand, the feature for designing your own screens is excellent. It is very simple (even the cat could use it!) and well implemented.

The screens are very imaginative. I especially liked the trampolines and, best of all, the option of putting them all together in your own screen.

The graphics were good, the robot being well animated. Hi-res rather than multi-colour sprites allowing greater detail.