Surely everyone's heard of Pong - the first arcade game ever, a primitive version of table tennis. To take you back to the days when computers ran hundreds of times slower than now and graphics were non-existant, Matthew Hopwood has written Super Pong, which is, to use an old cliche, a whole new ball game.

If you install it onto a Revo, the first thing you'll notice is that the game area goes outside the screen. Luckily, this isn't hard to fix - there's a menu option with which you can set the game area to a more sensible 400x160 pixels. Tucked away in the menus is a fair number of different games - there's standard Pong, a Breakout-like game, a squash game, one game you play against gravity and, my personal favourite, a Blizzard where each level adds more air turbulence to the game area each level. Since every game apart from the Death Match version of standarad Pong also has an 8-ball option, the supplied games should keep you occupied.

However, if they don't, you can choose a Custom game and pick and choose between a vast array of options under the Preferences menu. If you want a five-ball game with plenty of turbulence, little gravity and massive square balls linked by chains, it's possible! The only problem is, if you make changes for a Custom game in Preferences, they apply for all games. This means that if you play a one-ball game and you had five balls set for your custom game, when you return to the custom game, you will only have one ball because the last game you played resetted it. One minor problem with the Extras bar on the Revo is also evident - because of its small screen, 'Super Pong' appears as 'uper Pon'! Its name may need to be shortened to fit properly.

The only other gripe I have with this game is the Games menu. Basically, it's too long to fit on the Revo's screen, so it acquires a scroll bar - understandably looking odd and unwieldy on a menu! It might have been better to put several 'cascades' onto the menu, so that you tapped on 'Gravity' to bring up a submenu of the two types of gravity game.

This is a real gameplay over graphics game. The graphics are basic at best - just outlined or shaded blocks and circles, depending on your settings. But that's not a great problem, as detailed graphics would probably slow the game down and gameplay is ultimately what keeps you playing.

Super Pong is definitely worth trying out. A standard Pong game would become boring very quickly, but Super Pong manages to combine this with new and innovative ideas to produce a very enjoyable game that I can find few problems with. It's definitely worth installing to have a go at.