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The heroic saga of Wallie continues. In this third game featuring the small unlovable blob, Wallie must set round a supermarket, picking up the shopping that he has been sent for. The supermarket in this game does not have the usual shelves of dogfood and Domestos: disappearing floors, slides and moving beams are all present to trap unwary Wallies.

The other shoppers are as weird a bunch as in any Tesco's on a Saturday morning. Anyone who has played Son Of Blagger by Alligata, will find the scenario familiar. For those at this point saying 'Son of Who?', the object is to make your way around the screen, which scrolls very smoothly in all directions, getting across the disappearing floors without falling through, avoiding the nasties and not setting squashed, spiked of otherwise mutilated. Despite its somewhat derivative nature Trollie Wallie is an enjoyable and addictive game with graphics of the standard we have come to expect from Interceptor.

The background tunes are mostly by Jean Michel Jarre, the person given credit on the cover for the music has merely rearranged them for the C64. There is the usual Interceptor humour in the game; on parts of walls scroll messages containing snippets of totally meaningless disinformation about the authors. The game requires a joystick, but then what self-respecting C64 gamer hasn't got one?