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I quite enjoy strategy games such as noughts-and-crosses and Othello. I also really enjoy fast-moving arcade games. I was therefore delighted to discover that Pengwyn has magically captured the essential features of both and put them into one.

Pengwyn, the cute little polar inhabitant, has been given the job of lining up three special flashing ice cubes side by side. He can move the cubes by giving them a sharp kick and can clear a path for them by either moving or melting other blocks that can get in the way. Seems simple enough, doesn't it? The only trouble is that "smiley" monsters keep emerging from random ice blocks and coming to attack him. Pengwyn's only escape is to crush the monsters by kicking blocks at them (splat!)

A super game with good graphics. My only criticisms are that I found the keyboard controls too widely spaced for easy use and that the random element allows monsters to jump out immediately adjacent to Pengwyn, giving no chance of escape.