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Topper The Copper is a top hat with legs. Topper the Copper is a policeman. Topper The Copper is a maze/platform game with a variation: you have to solve a crime by hunting down the information you need in safes hidden around Mad Marvin's caverns.

A murder has been committed by one of seven suspects. Topper knows that there are eight clue elements scattered around the caverns and though collecting them is dangerous, a sprite's gotta do what a sprite's gotta do.

The search starts near a lift shaft with the boiler room at the bottom. You can catch a lift by walking onto it as one passes but if you miss on the upwards lift you are safe because there'll be another along in a moment to break your fall, but if the lifts are going down then it's straight into the central heating boiler, thank you and goodbye.

Best to keep away from the lift-shaft until you've tried jumping a few less dangerous chasms first.

The caverns are not too demanding on the whole, but accurate positioning can be crucial to success and with a fair number of interesting nasties jiggling up and down this can be the hardest part of the maze.

Once you have found the eight safes housing the clues you must then find thekey to the 'clue release' to get at the riddle they comprise. If you succeed at this level, you can enter the courtroom, read the riddle, and make your accusation.

Each time the game is played, a different murderer is chosen which should keep the game alive for a while, unlike many maze games.

For once, I don't find the music too irritating. It's Yaketty Sax (more commonly associated with The Benny Hill Show) and it seems to jolly things along quite nicely.

I'm afraid that Topper The Copper did not wildly excite me, but neither did it disappoint. A run of the mill game overall.