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Clur is constantly in trainers, Trent has only one style of shoe but in three different colours and Dave wouldn't be seen dead outside a pair of Converse All Stars baseball boots. But the characters in this game don't wear shoes, because they are shoes.

The Shoe People is an educational package aimed at the four-to-six-year old age group. It says here that the game's in line with national curriculum guidelines, and who am I to doubt it? I don't know all that much about teaching so I'm going to have to believe them [I'm not surprised the amount of time you bunk off school! - Ed].

There are five different activity blocks on the tape, each with a choice of three difficulty levels. Of course, when I played it I stormed through the questions on the hardest level. But if you were a girl or a four-year old I'm sure it'd take you a fair while to complete, even on the easy level.

There are remembering games, number puzzles and sorting activities to name but a few. To top it all there's a drawing and painting program hosted by Margot the pink ballet pump. It's not the easiest painting program for a small child to use. The painting part's great if you've got the kind of mum who doesn't take kindly to a sudden paint job on her best white tablecloth, but the drawing section is a tad tricky if you want to attempt anything more complicated than a straight vertical or horizontal line.

Pretty pictures but not much lasting appeal, unless, of course, you happen to be a five-year old girl with a shoe fetish, in which case this would finish your collection off just nicely.