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Why didn't they say it was a version of Pac-man in the first place? I can't play Pac-man! After the 3-D opening sequence of robots moving through what looked like city blocks and clever little bowl~ng routines, I thought this was going to be great fun!

Instead, I'm presented with a two-dimensional maze, a man who won't move as he is told and a gang of itinerant robots who proceed to beat my man to death before I've had time to get to the movement keys! Most frustrating.

Tobor is not at all bad, if you like Pac-man style pursuit games. It does have a different slant or two~ but the. graphics are way behind, for example, Psion's Hungry Horace - the best Spectrum Pac-man I've seen to date.

In Tobor you get killed as soon as the robots line up on you - none of this close quarter stuff. You can only fire in the direction you're moving and you will die often. I cannot advise on tactics - I never stayed alive after collecting my jewels in the city to devise any.

Good fun then - but not what the presentation promises.

R.H.