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If you've ever stood at a bar for what seemed like an eternity in pursuit of an alcoholic beverage or been rushed off your feet by thirsty punters serving on the other side, then this is the game for you.

Tapper casts you in the role of the frenzied bartender whose job it is, to keep a never-ending stream of thirsty customers supplied with a never-ending stream of glasses of soda. We begin the tour of Sodaland in the Old West Saloon. The doors have just opened and the parched cowboys make their way to the bar. It's your job to quench their burning thirst.

The trouble with the crowd here is that they're not very polite. When they finish drinking there's no 'excuse me can I please have another when you're ready', they just sling the empty straight back at you. If you're not at the end of the bar to catch it - smash! And the boss doesn't like it when glasses get broken... You remember I said the customers were rude? Well... if one of them gets to the end of the bar before you've served them they'll pick you up by the scruff of the neck and sling you down the bar just like a soda!

If you prove a success in the Old West Saloon you get to move on to the "Jock's Bar". Jocks, we are told, are sports fans. These boys are pretty rough, they drink Green Chatreuse by the pint and woe betide anyone who gets in their way when Scotland get knocked out the World Cup of if they happen to see a Rapide Vienna fan.

En route to the Jock's Bar is the Bonus Round where you will meet the Soda Bandit. The Soda Bandit is a sort of Marty Feldman character with big bulbous eyes and a black hat. He shakes up five cans of fizzy drink, and then switches them around. To get a bonus one, you have to pick the unshaken one. You get to play the Bonus Card every time a bar is successfully completed.

And so you go on your merry way. If you make the grade as a bartender at the Old West Saloon and the Jock's Bar, you will get to work the Punk Rocker's Bar and the Space bar. The graphics and music are excellent and varied, and the frantic nature of the game makes boredom a very remote possibility. But I'd better not keep you any longer - your customers are getting thirsty!