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Monty Mole is looking distinctly aged these days. He first made an appearance back in 1984 on the beloved Spectrum (it's getting a lot of mentions this month, innit?) and seems to have faded into obscurity since then. However, this little-known game is making a reappearance, courtesy of Gremlin's budget range.

Impossamole can be described in a few sentences. It's a platformer (oh what a horrible word), in the same mould as most of the previous Mont games, offering some pretty background graphics, passable animation and very little new in the way of gameplay. There are extra weapons and hidden rooms to find, but that's about as far as it goes.

For platform games to make the grade nowadays, they have to have something special or be just plain enjoyable. Gremlin's own Switchblade 2 (see page 74) is just one of those games. Impossamole, unfortunately, isn't. If it was offered at full price it would be laughed off the shelves, but at this price it's one for those desperate moments when you really really want to buy a game and there's nothing better around. It's not really a bad game, it just joins that huge, teetering pile of games labelled "average" that are released, and almost immediately forgotten about.