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There are a number of 'Pengo' type games around and of the few I have played this is definitely the best. Pengi is a pacman type game but with a few extra features.

You control a chubby penguin who is trapped in a maze made of ice cubes, pursuing you are strange beasts called snowbees (no relation to honey bees). The snowbees do their best to catch you and take away one of your three lives. Against the snowbees you have two defences. Firstly you can kick an ice cube into them. This involves running up to the chosen cube and kicking it, the ice cube then travels in the direction in which it was kicked until it hits another ice cube, then it stops. Any snowbee in its path is killed. Your second defence is to stun them. This is achieved by kicking the perimeter fence of the maze, any snowbee touching the fence is stunned and can be trampled.

Control of the penguin is by keyboard only, the keys are a little tricky but fortunately can be redefined. There are no skill levels as such but there are apparently limitless screens and a useful practice mode.

Pengi is an excellent game which is highly addictive, sound and colour are used well. I look forward to new releases from Visions.