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The infamous Pink character has at last made his debut in the computer scene: he is the star of this new arcade adventure from PSS. PSS have rather recently exploded their advertising profile, and so I somehow expected more of a professional game from them than their old games, but I was disappointed.

The idea here is to find, and steal, the jewel. There are dozens, literally, of gendarmes out to arrest you, and at the same time as avoiding these, you have to collect various items.

The plot is fine, even good. Unfortunately, the execution of it leaves something to be desired. The graphics are rather small, reminiscent of the very first Spectrum games, until you reach one of the second screens. There are about a dozen different screens at this stage, which you can get to from the first, but even here, the graphics are rather plain - except for the panther itself (you) which is very well animated.

At this stage of the game, you have to climb up to various different floors in each building, looking for the objects. Once you have for as far as you can (for me this did not take too long) the way ahead is very unclear, with the result that you roam around not knowing what to do, so the game soon palls.

Apart from this, the game is a straightforward adventure, but a real graphic one where you have to physically pick up objects (less easy than you might hope) and kill policemen. Not my favourite, though a step ahead of standard arcade games.