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I wouldn't class this as one of the most exciting games I've seen - in fact it's dead boring.

Bridge-It, as its name suggests, is about bridges. You spend your time opening and closing bridges for your men to cross.

To control the four bridges you can use a joystick or the keyboard. If you prefer, you can redefine the keys for your own ease but I think that A for top, Z for bottom, > for right and < for left is quite a good selection.

There are nine levels of play and you can have from one to fifty lives - sounds a lot but you'll need them if you are ever to finish the game. Other features of the game include H for hold, S for continue, N for music stop and M for music plays.

I started playing the game at level one with 50 lives - well, I'm a pessimist. The outcome was horrendous.

Getting the first man over the first two bridges wasn't difficult - it's when you have more than one man on the screen that things get a bit tricky.

Even with fast coordination on the keyboard, men kept dropping like flies into the water. And with 50 of them pouring onto the screen, things got out of hand.

Next I opted for level one, but this time with one life. With one lift you get three men. Well, would you credit it, even this one was a killer to master, and as soon as one man falls into the water the game comes to an end.

The game then becomes tedious because you don't actually achieve anything. With 50 men I managed to get some across the four bridges safely but I didn't win any prizes.

Another irritating thing about the game is that after you've lost a game you start the monotonous procedure of going through the general screens before you get back to the game.

The graphics are rather static, apart from the men crossing the bridges and the bridges opening and closing, and the sound is of a fairground type. At £8.95 it's not for me.