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This is the latest from the Automata stable starring, once again, Burt who this time has shrunk so small that he can fit inside a computer where his mission is to track down the evil bugs, hence the title of the game Pi-In-'Ere (Pi in Here, subtle isn't it?).

Scattered around the innards of your computer are revolting edit keys, and passing under one of these with bugs in hot pursuit will cause the key to drop and squash the bugs, would that debugging a program was that easy!

The display screens are well done with Burt's movement being quite smooth although I found that with the playing area small and Burt so large it was somewhat hard to manoeuvre him around.

I cannot think of any real negative comments to make about this game except to say I think it has all been done before, perhaps not with bugs in a computer but this chasing around collecting some things and killing other things is, to me, old hat now, but having said that I would recommend this game to someone just embarking on a lifetime's devotion to he silicon chip.

In conclusion therefore, a good game that should hold your interest for a short while and as is usual with Automata games an audio track on the reverse side. Now if the audio track is supposed to be played simultaneously with the game then Automata probably only expect you to be playing this game for about three minutes which in my estimation is about right but then perhaps I have been spoilt by the wealth of good new games available for the Spectrum.