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Remember the fashion for poor Manic Miner clones for the BBC Micro? Games where the animation was jerky, the graphics were dull, and the controls were unresponsive? Bug-Byte has revived the genre with Tutankhamun's Revenge.

It's an arcade adventure - a pretty familiar format. Yet the game is difficult to play - or rather, just plain awkward. The odd bugs sprinkled through the game don't help.

The only vaguely unusual thing is the inclusion of a game designer, but this too is substandard. The games it allows you to design are even more limited than the main game! I've never even managed to finish designing a game - it always crashed, losing hours of work. The whole thing is poorly done.