There are some dated games on my trusted GameBoy Advance but Rare's latest hand-held offering, Mr. Pants, takes some beating.

It pans out as a traditional puzzle game in the Tetris sense where you are set the task of piecing together different shapes of specific colours on a flat playing field grid.

The theory is simple; you have to form rectangles of larger than three blocks by two blocks to make them disappear from play and gain points in the process.

The pieces can be rotated through 360 degrees which is the key to making each piece form part of the whole and disappear.

You can't place same colours on top of each other, but you can place other colours on top of already placed shapes to remove them from play. There are three variations: in Puzzle the challenge is to remove all shapes from play with the set amount of pieces. In Wipeout you've got two minutes to remove all shapes from play with an infinite amount of pieces. And in Marathon the challenge is to constantly place and remove shapes as long as you can, trying to keep the session alive as the playfield gets eaten away from the outside in.

This is an alright game if you have not played a video game for the past 20 years or you are young enough to play and learn at the same time so beware how you spend those hard-earned pounds.

Overall 2.5/5