Another good quality and novel, game from this Candian company, is Speedsnake. It is a fast-moving, arcade-type game, in which the object is to steer a snake around a maze, eating nuts as you go. Nuts and berries appear at random, but the berries disappear after a short time, hence they have a higher value.

Although this may not sound too difficult, there are certain complications. The snake moves faster as the game progresses, and the length of the snake increases as the nuts are consumed. If the snake hits the wall, or another part of itself, a life is lost. If this isn't difficult enough, you can select an option to add a couple of poison balls to the maze - instant death to the snake if it eats one!

There are ten mazes in all, and you can choose to begin the game in any one of them. Once in the maze, every 32nd nut eaten by the snake puts you into the next maze-level in the game. The game also includes a personalised 'hall of fame' game scoring feature.

Speedsnake is a well-written and enjoyable game. With practice, a very high score can be achieved, and the action is fast enough to challenge even experienced arcade game players.