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Hoots Mon! There's a ghost loose about this hoose! Could this be the world's first Scottish game? Who knows - but it's certainly a budget game that thinks it's full-price.

Olli & Lisa set out to help Sir Humphrey, resident ghost in the Shilmore Castle somewhere in the Highlands. This ancient pile is threatened with being shipped stone by stone to the US of A by mega millionaire Eugene Portcullis.

Sir Humph isn't too keen on the idea and enlists Olli and Lisa's help in getting together the ingredients which will make him invisible and therefore more scary. Those Americans have seen so many monster movies with amazingly horrible special effects that they wouldn't be scared by an ordinary old ghost like Humph - or so he reckons.

So he sets old Olli the task of collecting the ingredients for his invisibility brew which are hidden around the castle and protected by the other little gremlines and nasties which inhabit the old pile. Lisa gets to stay by the cauldron and stir the mixture.

There are eight ingredients to collect - and you can only move onto a new screen once the particular ingredient you're after has been collected.

Humph will tell you what to find to put in the cauldron on screen one in his little speech bubble. If Olli manages to collect an ingredient he gets a big kiss from Lisa - shown in a nicely animated interlude screen.

There's a time limit for each task, and if you eventually run out of time and lives, another neat animated screen comes up which shows Sir Humphrey's ghostly form approaching Olli and battering him with a broom!

Olli has to explore the entire castle inside and out for the things he has to get - but he must always bring them back to the cauldron room where Lisa is stirring the brew.

Gameplay is basic platforms and ladders jumping over nasties - but the nice graphics and humorous little touches make this a really terrific game to play.

Olli and Lisa - and old Sir Humphrey are such nice characters I reckon we could be seeing a few sequels to this brilliant budget game. If not, why not?!

Olli & Lisa is an entertaining and very attractive game. Great value for money and instantly playable. One of the best budget games for ages.