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This is the definitive screen version of the board game. It follows that intellectual diversion Trivial Pursuit move for move, with the possibility of 1,400 different questions.

If you've been in a coma for the last two years, here's a rundown on the game that put the hype intro trivia. You have a board and everyone has a segment dish. You then go round the board rolling the dice and collecting pieces to fill your segment. You move around and collect segment pieces by answering questions correctly. Different colour squares represent different topics like History, Sport and Leisure and Entertainment.

The board game works exactly like this with the computer rolling a dice for you and moving the pieces. You simply guess aloud and press the space bar for the answer, then you tell the machine if you got it right. Your opponents will, of course, stop you from cheating.

I've no real complaints about this at all. Minor problems are that it's a bit slow, especially as you wait for the question to be printed out on the screen, but I suppose the board game's a bit slow as well. The questions are all suitably trivial and that, after all, is the whole crux of the game. It's certainly a much better attempt than US Gold's yankee imperialist affair. It weighs in at less than half the price of the board game so it has to be great value. Should prove great entertainment for those long winter nights and post-Christmas dinner occasions.