And it does splat, too. Very nicely, thank you. Someone out there has a real morbid sense of humour. When zippy, the character involved, gets squashed, he spurts his inner organs everywhere. The idea is to move him around (he looks like a berserk beetle), picking up things - no idea what they are, we're told - scattered around a maze. This is no ordinary maze, though, it slides around, it's big and God help Zippy if he gets trapped between a maze wall and the edge of the screen. The only thing that's going to shift him is a shovel and lots of soapy water.

Splat is a fine example of a simple idea applied well with an imaginative use of graphics. After all these Q-Bert, Frogger and God-knows-what lookalikes it makes a change to see something with a spark of originality to it. Perhaps if it does well they can afford to give some instructions with it.