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Warning - this game could damage your health! Positively addictive, my upper arms literally ached after I had finished.

Atlantis is an underwater version of the arcade game Scramble, and seems to have most of the features of that game, although I could not get far enough to be sure! A game for the advanced player, it is extremely fast right from the start, and uses the BBC's sound and graphics capability to the full.

You have to move past a right to left scrolling underwater landscape avoiding, shooting or bombing mines, obstacles and missiles. I could not get past the first section, but two of my arcade-mad friends, playing simultaneously, managed to reach the caes of the second stage.

Cassette instructions are minimal - how to load (which it did, first time). Screen instructions set the scene and give the kep operations, awkward arrangement: left and right cursor keys for Left/Right, A and Z for up/down, space bar or tab for bombs and shift for missiles.

A high score is not kept and more instructions would have been useful - plus some hints for beginners like myself! But a superb game for expert videogamers.

R.E.