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It takes a lot to amuse a jaded software reviewer, I can tell you. But Saloon Sally is a game I play for fun, and that's some recommendation. It has the simplicity and compulsion of a Pacman-type game - there are just five controls: up and down (: and /), left and right (Z and X), and kick (Space bar).

Sally has to collect gold bars from table arranged in a maze. To do this, she kicks the tables aside and takes the gold by walking into it. She's pursued by four mean cowboys who negotiate the table maze and stomp all over our heroine when they catch her. Sally can box in the cowboys by judiciously arranging the kicked tables, or stun them by aiming a flying table at them - if she stuns all four you get a bonus. But now and then the lights go out (the cowboys turn blue) and the cowpokes bust through the tables. Sally can disintegrate tables that don't contain gold bars, but this tends to slow her down. And in the tradition of film westerns, the pianist just keeps on a-playin'!

Highly addictive. In fact, I think I'll just try to beat my high score. Then I'll stop, I promise, and write a few more reviews.