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Well, it hits us all eventually, doesn't it? One day you're a star. The next you're a drunken wreck. Or so Eugene tells me. Stardom has hit the PiMan hard in this game and, in his acute desperation, he's taken to the bottle.

Your job is not to cure him of his ill ways, as you might think, but actually to help our patient to drink as much beer as he can before running out of points.

Before I actually played the game, I listened to the "awful" single record on the other side of the tape. I thought that it might be quite funny, but it wasn't. Just awful. Lurch, the office parrot, has a lot to answer for.

Anyway, the game itself is set in a "frogger"-type street. The poor drunken PiMan staggers down the street avoiding the oncoming cars. There are lines of shops, pubs and the like along the street and the PiMan can enter any of them. The first thing that then happens is a message appears on the screen. None is really funny, just silly.

If our hero enters a pub, then he can start drinking the beer. He must empty all the glasses on the table before he can leave.

The pub scene is drawn on screen very well. The view is one looking down from - you guessed it - above. The whole establishment is visible. There's a pool table, cosy log fire in the corner, the bar itself and even people doing naughty things into a basin! Each pub is different, and they're all very good.

Once the beer's all gone, the PiMan can leave the pub and stagger on to another.

This game is silly in the extreme, but just in case you're worried about corrupting delicate young minds, I can assure you that it's all good clean fun and perfectly acceptable.

The bottom of the cassette inlay card says to watch out for the PiMan's continuing adventures. I wonder what'll come next. "Just breathe into this bag please sir" perhaps? Or something even more drastic?