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Type of program: Game
Supported platforms:Win 95/NT
Company name: Zero Entertainment, Inc
Version: 1.0
Cost: $24.95
Installed size: 2.1 MB

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This program is absolutely adorable. At first glance it looks like a kids game; but, I am still having a heck of a time getting over level 10, and there is 87 levels in this game. This is a keeper!

You have all these balloons, see; green are safe, yellow sinks, red bounces erratically, and the blue polka dotted balloon raises you up past current level. But, guess what you are hopping across the balloons? A lop-eared puppy! And, he's got fleas! As you will discover to your dismay. I answered the phone, turned around, expecting the lil critter to be where I put him, and he was facing the wrong way, scratching fleas. I hoped and pooff-off he went. And if I did have any complaint about this game at all; its that he sounds so piteous when he falls off his balloon. If your having trouble with a level, by the time you succeed, you feel like a dog-beating troll. With any level past 1, [which is a straight shot] you almost have to dump the puppy at least once, just to see what's ahead.

You make the puppy jump with the up arrow key, and turn him with the right left arrow; that will drop him at least a couple of times while you discover just cause he looks straight doesn't mean he is; or he has a flea and zigs, when you're zagging. Now in this, I don't know if my keyboard is sticking, [right-like its so clean in between the keys] or sometimes he won't turn the first time and you have to hit him a second time while praying the yellow balloon doesn't sink any lower....You watch out for that in case its him and not my keyboard, ok?

I think this program is super. Kid or adult, this is one to save your sheckels for!

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Reviewed by Stormy Strock


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