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Various older people have told me about this, er, publication, and I gather that it's basically a collection of rude words and terrible cartoons. Now I like cartoons as much as the next man (in fact, I'm sometimes mistaken for one myself), but I'm not sure that it translates particularly well to the C64's screen.

What you have to do is choose a character - Johnny Fartpants, Buster Gonad or Biffa Bacon - and race him through various locations in Fulchester. Many of the other characters interfere, and there's a fair bit of very rude swearing.

Ha ha ha, and all that, I thought. But the racing itself isn't that brilliant, and once you've finished, you have to go through all the same jokes again next time. Ha ha not very ha.

It's a pity that the race itself isn't a bit more playable. If there was a two-player option, it would have been much more fun. And the idea that you've got to build up your tokens at the beginning (in a separately loading section) is a bit dreadful.

Basically it it wasn't based on the Viz characters, I'd give it 47 per cent.

All your 'faves' (in fact, people you shouldn't really have heard of) in a not-particularly fun-packed racing game with some swearing. Like Brunel's famous 19th century chair-lift across the Avon, it's a nice idea which could have been done so much better.