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Alien Destroyers is a Space Invaders type game with novel additional features.

It is for keyboard play only, but you can choose which keys you use to move left, right and fire, making it easier for you to settle into a champion ship position and reach high scores.

You have three bases, and more can be earned as you reach higher scores. The first screen of invaders appears against a vivid blue background and this alternates with a more restful black sky, but there is no escape from the menacing bombs in either game.

You can hide behind the defences while they last, but your only real hope lies in attack.

One of the nice things about this ver sion is the amount of choice there is in choosing a level of skill at which to play.

You can set the alien speed at any of six levels, the bomb speed at three, (fast, very fast and very, very fast), choose whether to have the aliens advancing or not, (why be foolhardy!), whether to have vertical bombs only or risk the multidirectional shrapnel, and whether to have a fast base or not.

All this makes it a much more versatile game than a Space Invaders version might have been.

Also, after each game you get a full battle report - which tells you how many of each alien you destroyed, how many screenfuls you eliminated, how many torpedoes were fired and the percentage of these which hit one of the aliens, how many of your bases were hit, what your final score was and at what level you were playing.

The game also has an invaluable pause button, useful when things just get too much!

Altogether this is a fun, colourful game which, despite only having key board controls, has a lot of good points to recommend it.

Linda Case