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Ah, Rick Dangerous. A classic game among classic games, and a bleedin' hard one to boot. Rick Dick is a derring-do explorer a la Indy - all right, he's actually a complete clone of Indy, and bounds about doing heroic things, like being killed.

Rick Dangerous is a platform game set over four largish levels made up of flick screens. Each level has a theme - Level Two's Egyptian, Level Four's set in an arms lab of the dastardly nasty who you're out to destroy. You're armed with a gun and dynamite, the former for killing everything and anything that gets in your way - Indians, Egyptians, Germans, xenophobes and so on - and the latter for blasting sections of rock that make your progress otherwise impossible. Both forms of armament are finite and have to be topped up by colecting caches of them en route.

This is the easier re-released version of the game in which you can access the four levels via a menu at the start - but you can't complete the game this way. This is fortunate, because without it you'd never get to see the later levels. The game is tough - very, very tough, but immensely enjoyable, with cutesy cartoony graphics, spot-on samples and all the gameplay you can eat. Superb stuff.