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So ya thought Blagger was a mean sonofabitch didjya? Well, just take a look at his boy Sid. Not so much greedy for money as shifty, his speciality is espionage, which is how he finds himself in the National Security HQ with a journey through one of the biggest, most dangerous buildings in the land to look forward to.

Which land? Nobody says, so is our hero the patriotic type, digging around in the bowels of the Kremlin looking for a secret Borstch recipe for Maggie? Or is he grubbing around for Z80s in the corridors of Whitehall to send to our pink pals over the wall. Who knows, ours is not to reason why, ours is but to plonk the keys to the best of our ability and get our man out of this hairy situation.

The graphics are a little primitive and the sound about as subtle as picking your nose with a pneumatic drill, but we can probably live with that when there's so much exciting territory to explore.

Son Of Blagger is one of the scrolling maze variety where you've got to look for keys to get into the next area. The action starts with Sid standing on a wall with only one direction in which to go, so he goes hence, slips onto his backside and down a slope. Good start.

This is a pretty good indication of the way the game goes, largely by trial and error. You can spend days playing the game, trying to avoid that small spikey thing in the corner, only to accidentally fall over it and discover it to be quite benign.

How deep in the maze of collapsing floors, ladders, etc, he can go is something I don't know yet, but I've every intention of finding out - in the interests of science, you understand. All I can say is it's pretty big. Should keep you going for some time.