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Walk sideways and lob cans at dogs and birds. If those were all the instructions available for this game, you'd still be able to complete it. Still, simplistic gameplay sometimes works, so why knock it?

The game's set in - amazingly enough - a scrapyard, so you clamber over, under and round knackered cars, mucky tyres, vague rusty orange huts, dustbins and dogs in raincoats. No, wait, the dogs in raincoats are your enemy - you can despatch them with cans.

Scrapyard Dog is peculiarly addictive. It's a jump and judge game where all that matters is your ability to leap by the toes between platforms while rattling off a few, er, cans. You progress by memorising what happens at which point and being prepared. In other words, you die a lot. It can't be helped - you just have to learn the route.

Graphically, the game's OK. The scrolling is smooth, the sprites are vaguely pleasant while the backdrops are imaginative and bright - the sound doesn't exactly push the Lynx to its limits, however. A game to get your teeth into, but only if you're the type who really gets excited by platform action.