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Automata must be getting desperate for PI-sounding titles for their games. Quite what Pi-In-Ere has to do with a character called Burt hopping round the insides of a computer, I'm not sure.

Oh, and before you ask, Burt isn't of the Q variety. He may have a big nose and look like a long lost cousin of the PiMan but he's been given a rest from jumping around a load of blocks and turning the air blue.

Burt, so the story goes, has been miniaturised and placed in a computer. His task is to track down the Big Bug by exploring the various areas of the computer's memory and collecting the objects which lurk within.

There are 61 different screens and, on your way to an encounter with the Big Bug, you'll meet lots of other nasties which have to be avoided.

Although set in a computer, you wouldn't know it unless you read the inlay card.

The graphics are good, though, especially the loading screen which has some cute pictures of the characters from the game. Sound effects are average, which is more the fault of the Spectrum than the program itself. Control is from either the keyboard, or with Kempston or Interface 2 joysticks.

Incidentally, if you ever get fed up with this game and want to swap it with your friend for a different cassette than you're perfectly entitled to do so, as long as you don't make copies, despite the warning to the contrary on the cassette inlay card.