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Wow! Not only is this a pinball simulator, but it's also vaguely got something to do with soccer! That should please Bert Rawlsden, the famous Yeovil Town striker and obsessive pinball fan. But will it please you? I gave this an evening's worth of play and decided that it starts off as pretty addictive. You spring the ball up the, er, machine, and then try to flip it around into the other players and eventually the goal.

The pinball machine has a football pitch drawn on it, and your main aim is to stop the ball going between your bottom flippers. When it does (as it eventually must), it's a goal against you. And you'll scream, cry and join a welrd religious sect in your annoyance.

After trying to keep the ball out of your goal, try and score in the opposing team's goal. And that's it.

Simple idea, simple background graphics, nice ball movement and some silly piccies of footballers scoring, crying, kissing, etc.

So it's not very inspiring, actually. Pinball is frustrating, and you want to win, but after a while you'll want to go out and sit in the garden or something. And after you've forked out four quid, you might do a bit of crying yourself (like a big girl).

It's not bad, but it gets boring after a while. You can have cheaper fun by turning an old Marigold glove inside out and doing Sarah Greene impressions for 10p a go.