Out of the recent batch of Pocket Money releases, Robin Hood was one of my favourites, one of the few I'd actually go out and buy. Okay, so it's an inferior version of The King, but it's still great fun to play and has many an amusing touch about it. Instead of rescuing the blonde starlet from the clutches of the killer gorilla, you're rescuing Maid Marion from the Sheriff of Nottingham's castle. Instead of barrels, you'll be bowled over by boulders, which the evil Sheriff tries to drop on your head from the ramparts at the top of the screen. He does follow your movements left and right before dropping the rock, and while that's not too much of a problem when you're way down at the bottom, it creates a bit of bother as you climb up.

Rather than a continual pathway with ladders, this is a platform-type screen, with Robin having to leap from place to place, trying to avoid a fall through to the moat beneath, and trying also to pick up the bags of gold and crowns for bonus points, and the key that you'll need to release the maidenly Marion. The top level of platforms also has several arrows winging their way across, just to add to the problems, though if you do get to Marion (all right, so I didn't!), there's then a bonus screen. Beyond that, I don't know.

But while I'm sure it won't have the complexity of The King or Manic Miner, at £1.99 Robin's robbing no one.