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Croaker is another version of the game also known as Frogger. The game itself is delightfully simple to understand. You have to control the movement of a frog who has to reach his home by crossing a busy five lane motorway, and then a polluted river by jumping on to floating logs and the backs of turtles. The visual presentation is extremely good with multi-coloured road vehicles of all sizes and very realistic logs (rather less realistic turtles).

The journey is initially not too hazardous, but the game requires you to keep on trying. After the first screen, the vehicles are closer together, making the journey more dangerous, while logs occasionally turn out to be well disguised and not very friendly crocodiles. Even the placid turtles can make life dangerous by diving suddenly, to leave you floundering in the polluted river.

The program includes an optional musical accompaniment which you either like or hate. This is a first class game for the Electron, and good value at £7.95.