Teams of grown men and women from six different countries dress in daft outfits and compete in silly games, desperately trying to prove how wacky and zany they really are. That's what the television show It's A Knockout was about. And that's what this game is based on.

before play begins, a menu is displayed showing the countries: Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and Holland. From here you are requested to enter the number of people playing aloin gwith the countries they wish to play for. If a country is not represented the computer provides its score after an event. There are six events, one of which is the marathon game. A team selected by the computer competes in the marathon at the end of a round. Each event is played against the clock, represented by a horizontal bar at the bottom of the screen.

The FLAN FLING is the first event and takes place in a room divided by a wall. Gooey flans are catapulted over this wall and to score a point the player has to catch the sticky projectiles and place them in a serving hatch. Moving the joystick left or right guides the waiter who has to cope with an increasingly slippery floor as flans are fumbled.

After all the flans have been flung it's out to the desert to play HARLEM HOPPERS. Small spheres are rolled down a camel's back and must be caught as they fall from its tail end. To maek life difficult the player under your control is attached to a length of elastic which pulls him away from the camel as he attempts to catch a ball. The ground is greasy too, which adds to the fun!

Then the teams are taken out to sea for TITANIC DROP. It looks like passengers are escaping from a sinking ship by sliding down a lifeline and dropping into lifebelts below... Pressing the fire button determines when a passenger falls, and points are given for landing in a lifebelt.

On to DIET OF WORMS: a lrage chicken is placed under your control and must be guided around the screen to catch worms which pop up from the ground. Peck up a worm and take it to a container at the bottom of the screen to gain points.

Finally the OBSTACLE RACE is run against the computer. Scurrying along a horizonallt-scrolling track, waggle your joystick left and right to keep up speed and press the fire button to jump over the obstructions.

Which leaves the marathon, attempted by each team at the computer's whim. Dinosaurs emerge, at random, from a row of six craters. Using a crane, the aim is to bonk the prehistoric beasts on the bonce with a ton weight before they duck back to safety. A point is given for each dinosaur squashed.

After each event the computer updates the scoreboard. At the end of the game infal rankings are worked out, the winner is announced and then it's back to the start, and off we go again...