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This game isn't as explosive as it sounds, but you should still treat it with extreme caution. Mr TNT is highly addictive.

A little round fellow with no nose or mouth (that's you) patrols a complex grid picking up sticks of dynamite. The lines of the grid disappear as he runs over them. Once he's picked up all the sticks he can progress happily to the next screen and do the same thing all over again.

Well actually it's not quite that easy. Four burning fuses follow him about the grid with relentless purpose, cutting off his escape routes and blowing up the dynamite (thereby depriving him of valuable bonus points).

Mr TNT has two options. He can either concentrate on grabbing the dynamite and avoiding the fuses, or he can give as good as he gets by running round the grid cutting off *their* escape routes.

Once a fuse reaches a dead end it goes out, and as soon as all the fuses have been extinguished you move on to the next screen. With each screen the fuses burn faster and faster. Mr TNT loses one of his five lives every time he bumps into a fuse, or blunders into a dead end.

You have to be pretty nifty with the joystick while playing this game. The control is very finicky and if you're not careful you can find yourself zipping off along the wrong track, sometimes with fatal results.

This is a simple but extremely compulsive game. The graphics are nothing to write home about and the sound isn't much better, but it has that pac-manic feel to it that could keep you glued to the keyboard for hours.