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In a neat CD-exploiting sort of way, the otherwise identical-to-the-Amiga version of Superfrog (78% in Amiga Power 26) also has a playable demo of Arcade Pool and clips of Super Stardust. So that's what it looks like. No, only joking.

There's a great intro to Superfrog animated by TV's famous Eric Schwartz, which paints the frog as a coolly cynical sort, with a permanent knowing smirk and piercing eyes peeping out from under half-closed lides, so it's a bit of surprise to find in the game itself he's a chubby smiling cute thing. Yup, Superfrog's a cute platformer. A coin-collecting-to-open-the-exit cute platformer, to be exact. With monsters. That you kill by jumping on their heads. And there's a slippy-slidey ice world. And spiked pits that kill you instantly.

However...! The difficulty's very 'there' - you'll get that special it further each time - and there are some jolly silly (as opposed to jolly silly, if you see what I mean) sub-games, like a fruit machine and (apparently) some sort of shoot-'em-up at the end. It all hangs together well, the scrolling's fine, the levels are big and it's as playable as a cute platformer can be.

And if that sounds like a cop-out cliche, so is Superfrog. But in a nice way, of course.

It's a cute platformer of the Sonic clone school - lots of fast scrolling (but stupidly dead-stop obstacles) and coin-collecting. Acceptably budgety and innocuously time-passing, easy to put down and even easier to forget about.

I suppose it's all about personal taste: me, I prefer the splendid characterisation and must tighter design of Out To Lunch.