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If you thought putting posters all over a town would be a messy or tedious job, then take a look at this game.

As Bill Posters you have to paste up hoardings while protecting yourself, your posters and your glue from the Gnurds, Veazzocks and Drain Brains. This calls for a mixture of joystick dexterity and fast reactions.

On each screen you have a paste bucket, brush, ladder and a box of posters. Using these tools of your trade you must first get a sticker out of its box by positioning your hand over it and pressing fire. Then, by walking along the gutter, you can move the ladder to the appropriate place and climb up it.

At this stage the poster can still be moved a little before finally pressing fire to hang it. If you've got it right, it drops into position and you can get the next part of the picture. Otherwise it will roll off and you'll have to start all over again.

Posters have to be placed so that a blue rim can he seen along the top and right hand side. Where there is no border, it's either a matter of guesswork or sometimes you'll find the topmost rung on the ladder automatically puts you at the right height.

Precision hanging isn't your only problem though; different anti-poster pests will appear to try and touch you. If they succeed you die.

One variety of beast is a pair of waving hands, which if allowed to reach your box can mix up the order of your posters. This can be disastrous if you have eight rolls of paper to put up. You will be looking for the right ones all day!

Aquatic Wazzocks can be either help or hindrance since they dilute your paste. This is great if your glue has dried out and has gone solid but terrible if it gets so runny that your posters won't stick.

As you complete more hoardings, the difficulty of the pictures and the number of menaces marauding the pavement increases. All of these can be dealt with by a deft flick of the paste brush sending a glob of glue smacking into the monster's mush.

I found it a very novel game which after initial playability doubts became completely absorbing.

How do Taskset do it? Another totally original game hits the C64 from their talented team. And they also prove that they have not lost their touch with graphics - every piece of animation is flicker-free and the streets are beautifully drawn. The posters are not bad either!

The continuous tunes will have you humming along, and the sound effects of many other games pale in comparison.

The twelve different screens it offers will take more than a little time to master: my best so far is only screen 7, but I'm sure a few more days play will see me through to at least... screen 8.

The game is quite addictive - if you want a change from ordinary gameplay, get stuck into Poster Paster.

PCG doesn't just stand for Personal Computer Games, but Paste Consistency Gauge as well, so I wasn't too hurt when told my PCG was 'lumpy'!

I liked the game because it isn't just another shoot-'em-up type, but requires a little thought to position the posters. My only complaint is that they, and the ladder, are fiddly to get hold of.

Overall, I found this game addictive, especially since Taskset are giving a prize to whoever solves the riddle on level 12 first.

A good idea, combined with good graphics and sound are the ingredients of a great game.

The movement of the characters, the barber's pole and the posters as they roll down are all superb. Another hit from Taskset.