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Stringer is an ace reporter with the Daily Blurb and as such you have been given the task of gettng an exclusive shot of Polly Platinum who is staying at a local hotel. Your equipment is hidden in various rooms of the hotel and you must collect all four items, avoid the hotel staff and take your photograph in time for your editor's deadline.

The game is a platform game, having the usual flights of stairs and lifts. Stringer must search every room until he collects his camera, flash bulb, press pass and the key to Polly's penthouse suite. Beware because behind one of the doors lurk Mr. Angry who does not appreciate being aroused from his slumbers.

The graphics are chunky and pleasant, but control of Stringer requires care when climbing the stairs. If you are not careful it is easy to walk off the staircase and plummet to your death. Stringer can walk or jump and in certain cases he can even jump past the hotel staff if he is cornered.

Though pleasant to look at, the game does not require a high degree of skill at the lower levels but heats up as the program goes onto more complex hotel layouts. The game is neither good nor bad, it depends on your reaction to platform arcade games.

Perhaps a greater variety of problems to be solved could have saved this game from mediocrity.