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If lavatorial humour and boozing are for you, then you may enjoy this. The Pi Man, a huge-hootered purple splodge, is discovered dodging cars along a busy road a la Frogger. Steer him to avoid the cars and into one of the many buildings, and your senses are assaulted by either an excruciating 'joke' or the inside of a pub, where obstacles like people, pool tables, dogs, crisp packets and "certain substances" must be negotiated. To escape and return to the street, you must consume all the beer on the bar, avoiding the obstacles.

The scoring system is strange. You start with huge quantities of points which are lost as Pi Man is knocked down, obstacles hit or beer drunk. When you run out of points, the game stops. However, each pint the Pi Man sinks is totted up to give the final score. So avoid cars and obstacles and sink as many pints as possible to amass millions.

The graphics are certainly not up to the highest standard achieved on the Spectrum, but are acceptable, though controlling the Pi Man without a joystick is very tricky. The humour is not to my liking; I got over the excitement of dog sh*t years ago, but then I am 13 next birthday(!)

All this game needs to be complete is a low score hall of fame!