Previous Next

This compilation of five cartoons is - er - a few games bunged onto a couple of disks. This is what you get when you stick them in the drive. One at a time, don't forget...

Let's start here since this is the best game - if only because it's different to the others. You leap between platforms shooting assorted wildlife which turn into cakes and bananas. You should ensure that CJ eats these since they keep him healthy - you know, a shiny coat, bright eyes and a wet trunk. Umbrellas, though, are what make this game really special.

Your elephant has an endless supply of these which, when you carelessly drop him off the edge of a platorm, he opens to break his fall.

Superstar - apparently - Seymour gets lost in the maze of studios in Hollywood which hinders his efforts to get his latest blockbuster into the world's cinemas. YOu have to start this process off by finding his scripts, along the way solving puzzles using objects you have found in the incredible labyrinth of studios. The graphics and the humour are the best bits about this - the skeletons of Seymour you get when you try to cross the road outside the studio and his attention-seeking antics with his sunglasses when you hestitate for too long, for example. Sadly, you die incredibly easily.

You have to rescue some princess-type who's ended up with a sunburnt dragon. This involves the usual challenge of finding objects and using them to solve puzzles. Spikes and ghosts are the order of the day here, as are the faintly more unusual starving rock monsters who you can't fool into believing water is actually nourishment. Your magic powers are fortunately greater than your powers of persuasion, and these can be increased by collecting stars, helping you along your way.

Hagar the Horrible - oops, Spike the Viking - has to rescue his shipmates from a transylvanian castle - another find-the-objects-then-use-them-to-solve-the-puzzles effort. If you're doing a study of ST games and the appearances of ghosts therein, the least you could do is look this one up - it must rate a mention as the game in which ghosts can kill you the fastest.

Don't worry about the history behind this particular omelette, by now it must be obvious that you have to get this bouncing egg off the island you've got yourself stuck on. You do this simply by escaping or by collecting gold coins which drags the game out a bit longer.

The way in which you do this is already obvious if three out of the other four games are anything to go by. There's an interesting little diversion in there though, where your joystick works in the opposite direction to that which it should. Well, it adds to the entertainment value, doesn't it?

Buy this only if you're under ten years of age; if your attention span is no longer than ten minutes, if you're hopeless at memory games where you have to remember the attributes of objects, or if you just enjoy gawping at cartoons. But, whatever you do, if you're after something to test your intelligence and give you a feeling of real satisfaction when you've completed it, don't even bother glancing at the box on the shop shelves.

1. Unpretentious packing - and with good reason.
2. Too much of the same lumped together.
3. Nothing of the games have anything remotely special about them!