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This game is an original from Beebugsoft, the software department of the BBC user group. The game involves you, the snorter, and the snakes, made up of red circular segments, which rush around the screen chasing after you. There are various barriers which both hinder your efforts, and provide a refuge from the snakes.

Also on the screen are a number of moveable fences, and the idea of the game is to shunt these into the snakes, who then promptly disappear. You have a time limit in which to kill off the eight snakes which make up a screen. You die if your time runs out or if you hit a snake.

The game has ten levels of difficulty, ranging from zero (quite easy) to nine (suicidal). The higher the level of difficulty, the faster and the more intelligent the snakes. In the centre of the screen the number of snakes left for that level and the number of snorters left is displayed, and when you clear a level of all its eight snakes, you progress to the next, more difficult level.

This game is quite good value for money at £7.95, and is very fast on the higher levels. The graphics are colourful, and the sound quite good. Don't expect Snapper Mk. II, but this is a highly enjoyable game.