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Any program with a message that reads "You naughty Pi-Man! I'm going to have to take away ten points!" is obviously in trouble, but this is even more solidly feeble than that legend suggests.

Automata's unloveable Pi-Man stumbles down a high street full of traffic and into as many pubs as you can direct him, where he has to manoeuvre between pool players, crisp packets and other drinkers in order to slurp down all the pints on the bar (actually they disappear with a ping). Then he totters from the saloon back on the street and does it all again. And again. This is a pub crawl without end.

You start off with 1,000 points and these are removed - penalties for barging into other soaks, stepping in bar slops etc - until you're down to zero, when you're told how many jars Pi-Man has managed to consume.

It's well animated in a modest sort of way but the precept of the game is (according to taste) either penicious or merely coy. It certainly isn't much fun to play and is rather unresponsive on the keyboard.