Reviews

1986 Megasoft (UK)
by Richard Welsh

At first glance its hard to believe this game is written in Basic, actually if I hadnt read the Crash magazine review it would never crossed my mind. But dont let that put you off.
Its clearly a simple game, but entertaining enough, if you decide to give it a chance.
Basically your job as Frank the Flea, is to move from room to room, in a deserted house, without dying from overbumping the furniture. Think of this as the younger tiny little brother of 'Bugaboo the Flea'.

Laughably simple and very rough. Guide Frank the flea through the house, without bashing into the furniture.
Despite, and to a certain extent because of, the simple nature of this game, it is very cute and playable. Not a classic, but brings a smile to my normally grumpy face.

Frank the Flea is colorful and charming and shares with Manic Miner the queer eccentricity and with Bugaboo the main plot and the same game-methods .

The way the flea changes its color is pleasing as well as the way it leaps over the furniture with a caracteristic Manic Miner kind of sound that I never get tired of hearing .

A very pleasant experience ,,,

Sadly I found myself less impressed with this compared to the others. I couldn't get on with the jumping and that he can be damaged more than once in one jump. I didn't get far as a result.