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The player controls the tireless Microbug, whose mission is to explore the corridors of an underground maze in search of the answers to a series of computer generated questions.

Microbug is continually chased around the maze by a stupid but speedy serpent whose appetite for microbugs knows no bounds. The game has six difficulty levels ranging from easy addition and subtraction to quite difficult division.

You have to steer Microbug around the maze, keeping out of the way of the snake, until you are under the answer to the sum displayed. Moving up through the number opens the passage, increases your score, and destroys the snake - but there are 39 still to go!

It is quite difficult to get the bug in just the right place to get through. One pixel wrong and you bump your head!

One other little moan - single digit numbers are shown with a zero preceding the digit, e.g. 09. This might be a little off-putting to a child.

Microbug can get caught five times before you lose the game. If you outwit all the snakes, you get a new frame.

Super graphics and sound effects. I can't get my children away from the keyboard!

C.B.