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This program takes you deep, deep into the threatening Amazon jungle. You are a native and all you have to protect you against multitudes of nasties is a blowpipe and a loin-cloth.

The game takes you through three phases of jungle, crystal caves and a ruined temple. Phase one pits you gainst flying snakes, black scorpions and headhunters. You only have a limited supply of darts and you've got to make them count, especially against the headhunters. These boys are out to get you.

Sooner or later, though, you've got to puff a dart into them. The disappointing thing is that nothing really happens except that they run away again. At each phase you must kill off a specific number of your enemy before you can progress on to the next.

The novel touch to what is simply a scrolling shoot-'em-up is the blowpipe. Pushing the joystick forward loads it, then you have to position it quickly. That said, there's nothing at all spectacular about this game.

Considering it's programmed by a musician the tune doesn't exactly make you hum along. The graphics aren't up to much either. The scrolling background repeats itself rather quickly, but is actually quite impressive by the time you reach the ruined temple.

Perhaps that's your reward because by the time you've rid the Amazon of nasties, you have to face a Quetzalcoatus, a kind of blue pterodactyl. Kill that and you just go back to the start on a harder level. Disapponting I think you'll agree.