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Sorry to have to report that, despite the intriguing title, this game is nothing more than another one off the seemingly interminable production line of platform games. In fact, the only unusual thing about it is the title. Score zero for originality.

The game is described on the packaging thus: "32 fast-action screens of action-packed exciting fun as Burt wanders through the Brewing Factory".

There may well be 32 screens but after a few plays I was so bored that I had no desire to put that statement to the test. The screens I did manage to stay awake through were certainly neither fast-action, exciting or action-packed. Snail-action, monotonous and yawn-packed would be more apt.

The Burt of the alliterative title is a blobby pink figure who can run left and right (taking a bit of time to get up steam), and can jump, sit down and fire bullets.

The game begins outside the factory where there are separate entrances for shipping, production and control, each of which leads to a different part of the factory.

Basically, each screen is a series of stages dotted with doors through which the meanies, without which no platform game is complete, appear.

Each shooting meanie looks exactly the same as the last shooting meanie. Kill one and another eventually appears from the same door.

As well as meanies, platforms and doors, there are moving trucks, escalators, rolling barrels and blowers, the latter gently floating Burt upwards to a higher platform. Moving off a certain edge of most screens usually takes you to another screen.

Don't ask me what the object of the game is - the minimal isntructions were silent on that point. About the only thing they do tell you is that the game can be played by one or two players.

The gameplay was dull, the graphics mediocre, the use of colour unimaginative, the animation basic and the sound below average.

Granted it is inexpensive, but if you really want a cheap but enjoyable platform game, better by far are Ollies Follies and Nuclear Nick from the same company.