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Sphere Of Destiny is that rarity among computer games - something a little different.

You control the character of Bruce the Ball, who is bouncing along the Inter-starion freeway to meet his lover (his lover? Freda the Frisbee, perhaps?). But this freeway is no ordinary freeway. It's a multi-coloured, with frequent black holes for Bruce to fall down, and made up of squares which have different characteristics, according to their colour. Do not attempt to play this one a monochrome screen! For example, green squares give you an extra boost of speed, while red squares slow you down.

You can move Bruce right and left, bounce him, and you can also slow down and speed up. The road zooms at you out of the screen, and when you lean on the go-faster key the road scrolls very fast indeed. Quite exhilarating, in fact.

It's not an easy game to master, although you can achieve a reasonably high score by not having a clue what you're doing, as I discovered the first few times I played. What with trying to dodge black holes (I never did work out how!), bounce in the right places, avoid the wrong squares, all the time going as fast as you dare, this is what I would call a challenge.

Altogether, this is a slick, polished and off-beat game.