Pssst is an unusual game. You are a robot gardener called Robbie and it is your task to grow and protect a flower until it blooms. A Thyrgodian Megga Chrisanthodil no less! You have three types of spray for three types of pests. Each colour spray will only work on the insect it was meant for. There are occasional bonus grow bags to be collected but that's about it. Every so often Robbie gets his ultimate dream ... a picture of himself appears in the centre of the flower when it blooms. It is a very simple game with a nice loading screen. Pssst of course refers to the sound a spray makes (what else would it be ?).

Cookie was the hardest of the first batch of games. You play a chef whose ingredients are out of control (all the ingredients have eyes as well, doesn't sound very appealing to me). You have to get all the ingredients into the mixing bowl so you can bake the cake. This is done by throwing flour bags at them to knock them in that direction.

The cake needs ten each of the five ingredients. Other things like fish bones, bolts and sweets also fly round which add five to the amount you need if they go in the bowl. Some of these unhealthy items are thrown onto the screen by the bin monster who looks exactly like Oscar out of Sesame Street.

This game is so fast it is hard enough to avoid the ingredients (failure loses you a life) never mind knock them into the bowl. A bad thing about some of the Ultimate games was that they were controlled by the keys Q, W, E, R, T and Y. Presumable this makes the keys quicker to scan by the program as they are all on the same row. But this arrangement doesn't feel comfortable or intuitive. The games always supported joystick interfaces like Kempston but if you didn't have one, a fast game like Cookie was unplayable.

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