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Summer Santa? Could this be a game that didn't see the light of day when it was supposed to? That's as maybe - but this offering from a new budget label is pretty basic arcade adventure stuff. Pretty basic graphics, pretty basic sound, pretty basic ideas - but pretty playable too!

The idea of the game is to help Santa get presents from his grotto to the house - which is full of stockings waiting for gifts. Hazards include barking dogs, rampant kitchen equipment and awkward parents. Santa has to hop, skip and jump his way around the house delivering the presents one by one. He can only take one gift from the grotto at a time you see.

You get points for delivering pressies and for drinking the sherry that has been left out for you. Despite several glasses, old Santa still manages to keep from falling over. Strange, this... You also get a demo mode which shows you how to deal with many of the hazards in the house. You can play using keyboard, or joystick and define your own keys if you want. Not brilliant - but not bad either.