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Deciding to set up in business on your own, you borrow a couple of hundred quid from your dad and spend the lot on a delivery van and some computer games. The idea is t set up a distribution network - collecting the games from the wholesaler's warehouse and then selling them to the local shops for what you hope will be a handsome profit. Naturally, things do not turn out to be quite as easy as you thought they'd be and you have to work hard to stay in business.

The game starts at the warehouse and you must decide which components you are going to stock your van with - cassettes, disks or computers. You start off with £200 to spend. Hopping into your van, you collect the goods as the delivery boys throw them down four different chutes. You can only assume that they have all eaten three shredded wheat for breakfast judging from the speed at which they appear. You drive off with heaps of now broken cassette cases.

Worse follows. One of your competitors is in front and his van doors are open and spilling out a stream of cogs and tacks which will do all sorts of damage to your van if you run over them. The pound signs start to mount in the minus column. On the plus side though, he is also spilling various disks etc which you can collect if you drive over them.

Once at the shop, you have to actually deliver the goods by overcoming a system of lifts and conveyor belts and power-driven boxing gloves and bombs in a derivative of a platform game.

At first, the whole thing seems impossible until you realise how to get your goods through the door in the top of the screen. The main problem is to avoid getting your goods crushed by the falling lift.

If you are in credit, when all your bills have been paid, you stay in business. Fail and it's the bankruptcy court and the game is over.

Wibstars is actually a collection of three mini games. None of them are very good and the sum total is little better. Poor graphics, poor gameplay and no lasting appeal mean this is one to avoid.