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Players, a reasonably new software house, has launched a game with a rather unusual title, Velocipede II!

While the game is loading, you have the chance to play another little game, which is quite simple, but fun nevertheless.

It was one of those "paint the squares" type and proved to be more fun than the main game in the end. Funny that.

The main game is all about a man called Mr Megafat who has just taken up a new hobby - cycling. However, as luck would have it, the roads home are very dangerous (he must live round my estate) and they are frequented by the usual nasty bugs, aliens and general riff-raff.

Not wanting to die young, Mr. M has developed a new unicycle with a plasma cannon. Very handy... as you have probably worked out, you can use this cannon to dispense of the low-life which hassle you.

Now what you have to do is control Mr. M, and his unicycle through four different scenarios, and get him safely home. Mr. M can make his cycle do jumps which will help you to cross various obstacles like lakes, ponds, and large holes in the ground. If, however, you do manage to get home, you go through the whole charade again, only harder.

The scenarios start and end at a bike shop. When you start, Mr. M wheels his pride 'n joy out of the shop and leaps upon it. You finish the screen when you reach the next bike shop.

All the shops, by the way, have different names, like Mike's Bikes and Bill's Cycles.

No matter how many paragraphs I write on this game, it's not going to hide the fact that the game is really sad, and I mean sad!

The graphics are colourful, but a little blocky, and the sound is in the form of a strange tune, which gets on your nerves extremely quickly.

Just a boring left-to-right scrolling game. Steer well clear.