In the early days of the Oric there was some pretty ropey software knocking about.

This was only to be expected, but the software soon improved, and we all thought of the days of the 2K Basic guess-my-number cassette were gone.

Not so fast. JPG Electronics has produced a couple of games which should only have been published between the pages of the "other" magazines.

The presentation of the cassette is nothing special, a black and white insert with a boring line drawing of the 3D Maze.

Now down to the games themselves. Alien Pursuit is a bit of a weird game. You control a 'missile base' and have to fight off asterisks by firing off minus signs, slashes and separators.

If you manage to hit one of these "aliens" then the poor soul seems to go through a bout of alpha-numeracy. Very odd.

3D Maze is marginally better, although nowhere near as good as we have come to expect from commercial Oric software.

The screen display was very confused, and even in a 2 x 2 maze I didn't know what I was doing or where I was!

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