Ahhhhhhhhhhh! I can't stand it any more! This has got to be the most irritating game I've ever played. All my muscles are strained through trying to make this stupid smiling bouncing red dodgem car bounce in the right direction and it's killing me!

Sorry about that outburst; welcome to Boogie Buggy! Boogie's aim is to thwart evil and champion good, by collecting evil-ore and dropping it down manhole covers in Dodge City. Or at least that's what he does in the four city regions, which are quite good fun. The Ore Conversion Plants are used by some evil monster chappie to create the evil-ore, and there are four increasingly irritating OCPs to be destroyed.

The first thing you notice about Boogie is that the graphics are gorgeous. The game uses the border as well as the main screen which in fact increases the main playing area by about 40 percent and the effect is stunning. The characters are all nicely drawn and animated, and in the city regions Boogie can whizz about collecting ore, leap over the scores of creepy-crawlies and collect bonuses in a very traditional, and welcome, arcade style manner.

He can even pick up some weird extension to his 'nose' which looks like a chain saw, and slice up the creepies. Contact with creepies affects the damage meter, and at 100 per cent Boogie dies, though collected plasters can patch up most of the holes.

In the OCPs the view changes from overhead to side, and Boogie has to jump from room to room until he finds the polarity switch, then throw it and get out before the whole thing explodes.

Here's the irritating part. To move between rooms, Boogie must jump. Whenever Boogie jumps, he hits something and causes damage to himself. At 100 percent Boogie dies. Therefore Boogie dies a lot, making the whole game nigh on impossible, since all nine regions must be completed in one game, and there's no password or save game facilities.

Boogie Buggy is fun until you get into it and realise that you're likely to get very annoyed and give up long before you ever complete it. Or at least that's my experience. In summation, 'irritating'.