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Unkind reviews of Burt's Brewery Biz would say that the programmer couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.

Another climbing game which, although it won't refresh the parts of your C64 that other software cannot reach, will keep you amused for at least a couple of hours.

You control the beer-gutted hero as he leaps around the platforms, collecting the keys in the three main areas of the brewery: Production, Control and Dispatch.

The game features the doors with nasties hidden behind them technique - featured in several other climbing games.

As you hop around the platforms, you have to collect the keys that are deposited throughout the factory. One of the major drawbacks with this game is that the different rooms do not appear logically connected to the previous ones. You tend to appear in certain rooms for no clear reason - the effect being that you too easily lose any sense of direction. Interest in the game goes soon after as well.

Graphics are well polished, though nothing spectacular. The scenario of a brewery should have provided the designers with the material for a great deal more humour. I didn't spot one frothing pint or tipsy employee. Not one of US Gold's best imports.