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About a year ago, Gremlin launched Thing On A Spring to an unsuspecting Commodore-owning public. Now Amstrad owners can take advantage of this excellent game.

The evil goblin has taken over the world and is wreaking havoc across the world. All the world's treasures have been stolen and are now hidden in his giant cavern, protected by all sorts of weird and wonderul creatures.

You, as the thing, must try and save these. The thing on a spring, as you might suspect, is a little thing on this sort of spring, really. And is capable of bouncing to great heights - which is quite useul really as the cavern is full of lots of things to jump over.

The game is a left-right screen to screen game with plenty of ladders and platforms in them. There is also a lift or two to take you between levels. You pick up the treasures, which is the object of the game after all, and can pick up various objects that help you on your way - like an escalator reverser and a sort of catapulter, and of course there is oil. You need the oil to keep your old and rusting spring in good order; run out of oil and you can look forward to a swift demise.

The game itself is bright and colourful and the animation is superb, definitely up to the Commodore version's standards. The accompanying music is also excellent and sets the scene perfectly.

A great game that can be enjoyed by almost everybody.