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It's a showdown. The two opponents meet armed not with guns but with custard pies. Ready steady and splat.

Custard Pie Fight is a simple arcade type of game. Your aim is to hit the other person with a pie four times in a row - and you win the game. One or two people can play this hit-and-run game.

With nine levels of play, I chose the easiest. Playing at this speed was so slow I had time to scratch my head and it wasn't hard to hit my man.

Level one proved the most difficult to master. If you're not quick enough you get custard all over your face and the impact is so strong that you fall flat on your back.

If you're playing against the computer at level one, you sometimes don't even get time to move off the spot before you're hit - so as might be expected, I didn't win too many games at this level.

The game would be more difficult to play if you could fire your pies continuously. The snag is you can only throw a pie once your opponent has thrown theirs. At the slower speed there's time enough to dodge around the screen.

The only taxing level in this game is one. And once you've got the hang of the quick finger-work there's nothing left to accomplish.

The concept of the package is far from original.