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Two Gun Turtle is heralded by a colourful and graphically startling introductory screen. After this, the comparatively plain game is a slight disappointment, although still of high quality.

You, as a green turtle armed with two guns, must shoot vermin in your garden to protect yourself and your strawberry patch. Once you have mastered the controls - either a Kempston style joystick or your choice of keys for movement in four directions and firing - the game is a matter of manoeuvring yourself into the path of a pest and blasting it before it reaches either you or your strawberries.

Initially your strawberry patch covers a large amount of the screen and so it is difficult to avoid shooting your precious fruit, however the ease of play increases, somewhat ironically, the more strawberries you allow to get eaten as this gives you added mobility.

The vermin include blue, pig-like, creatures which only attack fruit - although they can kill you on collision. There are also red, dog-like, creatures which ruthlessly pursue you and attack your fruit. I quickly named them with an apt obscenity. Thirdly there are yellow skulls with chattering teeth, whose arrival on the screen rapidly resulted in my death.

It's difficult, but worthwhile, watching the calendar, as bonus points are available during snow showers. The game as a whole is reasonably entertaining, but, in my opinion, it doesn't justify the price tag of 6.95.