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Whatever happened to Bug Byte? And all their hit games such as... well, er... do you know any? No wonder they went bust! Well, now they're back with a new range of budget games. Will they be any better, or can they get worse (is it possible?). The game is all about getting out of hell and climbing the stairway to heaven (wasn't that a record?) [Yeah, a duff one too - Ed].

The instructions compare the game with life itself "Fraught with little problems". The phrase itself is an understatement the word little should be replaced with "Almost impossible" - becoming an angel is no piece of cake!

When you start on the first sheet, you realise what a task you have. You are just a meagre little sprite in the pits of hell who has to get past large demons on a moving stairway going in the opposite direction to you.

On your way, you must collect various heavenly items such as halos. And, to make it worse, the sound doesn't make it any easier to cope with either. Obviously, Bug-Byte's idea of sound is a loud whirring noise. You're best off turning your telly down as soon as you have loaded this awful game. The graphics are no better either and the colours are awful, I would have been glad to own a black and white TV.

There are six hellishly frustrating screens to complete before you can meet Jesus and the rest of the gang. But don't fall off any stairways or it's straight back to screen one.

If the game was anything like life, I'm sure we would all have committed suicide by now!