Skramble

Skramble is a game where you are a jet fighter pilot and must shoot and kill enemy planes, escape anti-aircraft missiles, destroy fuel containers and eventually (if you are not killed or didn't run out of fuel) land the aircraft on a landing field. You continually travel in a right hand direction and you have controls to move the aircraft, fire the machine gun and drop bombs. The game makes use of the programmable character generator to produce some very hi-resolution graphics. It's a great game!

Exterminator

Exterminator is a shoot-out type of game. But this game is really two games in one!! In the first game, you must control your space ship through a swarm of birds. Try to blow them up if you can! Also, you must avoid a fast-flying enemy space ship which tries very hard to kill you!

After you have shot down all the birds, the next step is to destroy all the eggs in the nest. Sounds easy? Wait until you come across the robots protecting the eggs!

Kong

I shall not try to explain how to play Kong. What I suggest you do is go to your nearest arcade center and look at a game called Krazy Kong or Donkey Kong. After you have been amazed by that game, purchase Kong from Algray and get set to play *the same game*. Kong is unbelievably similar to the arcade version. This is the best program I have seen for the Colour Genie. I'm not surprised really since Algray have always been known to sell only quality software.

Many thanks to Graham at Algray for sending us the samples of the games for review.

Marc J. Leduc