This game from Acornsoft, long announced, has at last been released, though the results do not seem to have justified the wait. The basic scenario in this game is to drive a JCB 3CX Excavator Loader around two islands, scooping up the only landscape in which you can hide, and at the same time avoiding the 'Meanies'. These cannot be killed, but can be put to sleep by dumping them into the sea (fresh water won't do!) or by burying them. The screen, unfortunately, scrolls in a very sluggish and disappointing way. Perhaps one could have accepted this a couple of years ago, when the Beeb was still a new entity, but now that the secrets of screen scrolling have been so successfully mastered by other software houses, one would expect Acornsoft to have produced some better scrolling.

Acornsoft produced this game in conjunction with J. C. Bamford Excavators Ltd, and I assume that this is one of the main reasons for marketing this game. However, one wonders about Acornsoft's sincerity in the comment on the rear of the packaging that "this game is a must for the games connoisseur".