It was only a matter of time before the TV demons K-tel became involved in the software game. To my delight, they have done so with an unusual idea... two programs on one cassette.

One odd feature of this tape was that one game requires 8K expansion while the other requires none, so if you have no memory expansion one game will be unusable.

The games themselves represent extremes in quality. Alien Demon is a neat graphical adventure based loosely on that superb film Alien.

The game has some nice graphical touches and is sufficiently difficult to maintain interest. For some odd reason, however, no sound was used.

Plague is a sort of frantic, shoot everything in sight arcade type game which, quite frankly, bores me to tears.

Everything moves too quickly and the screen becomes over-loaded with twitching objects (viruses). As usual the idea is to last as long as possible.

Apart from the use of multi-colour mode graphics, this game is utterly forgettable.

Overall, the two-game package is good value, but K-tel will have to improve its standards if it wants to succeed in the software jungle.

A.W.