The on-screen instructions are clear and expand on the brief printed ones. There are three lives per game. The ones left and the score achieved are shown on screen. There is a high score table for the top eight scores. The packaging is good and identical to Continental Software's in style. Indeed, the game seems to come from the same stable.

Even though it is now a somewhat dated game, this one still holds the interest - well, at least for a little while. If you have to have a 'pacman' at all costs then I suppose this is reasonable value for money.

Cu*bert is a small shrew-like creature who starts off in the bottom most left hand box of a pyramid of cubes. By moving him to the other cubes using the keyboard you can change their colour and your points. The colour the cubes will change to is displayed at the top of the screen along with the top score and the score for that game. A round is complete when all cubes have changed colour. Pyramid colours change with each round and levels get more difficult.

Cu*bert has three lives per round. The number of the round and level are also displayed on the screen. Since colour in integral to the game, you are asked on running if you have a colour TV so that appropriate patterning can be made for black and white if you haven't.

Cu*bert must avoid both descending black and white balls which bounce between squares and creatures which appear on the screen and which can change colours back again. After scoring 750 points you can take avoidance action by jumping to the bottom middle square of the pyramid which is marked with a plus. The keys chosen for play take some getting used to since they are set with left and right controls for up on the right hand and left and right for down on the left. If deliberate this seems an unnecessary complication; if not, then why no option to reset keys to a more logical setting, like up and down on left and right hands respectively for those sides.

The graphics are reasonably colourful and relatively smooth for unexpanded TI basic and the sound quite good. The least said the better about the limited instructions and packaging. It's quite an addictive game and seemed good value, but when I was doing quite well, the game crashed with a 'Bad value in 3400' message. After that, I rather lost interest.