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OK, you're a Scramble fan but feel the old timer needs revamping, to present a fresh challenge. Well, Warlok has bitten off chunks from its familiar forebear, thoroughly chewed them up and regurgitated a highly interesting spin-off.

Up to four stages can be selected (I certainly don't pretend to have mastered them) with hazards presented differently enough from Scramble to warrant its devotees lurching out to grab a copy.

Mini mazes guarded by blipping laser screens, glittering bouncing cannon balls, space spiders(?) dangling from threads and indestructible droids are some of the delights that await you in the cavern. And, yes, energy has to be supped in the time-honoured fashion.

The graphics are not from the very edge of innovation but from what I've seen so far they deserve the thumbs-up. Silky scrolling and percussive sounds but no "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", or similar, so soothe the troubled brow.