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I'm sure the RSPCA will have something to say about this game - poor old pigeons being used by those nasty Nazimen to wing messages across the countryside indeed!

There you are, situated behind the controls of some gun turret, shooting down the poor blighters as the Luftwaffe comes down from the skies in waves of aeroplanes which increase in sophistication, not to mention bomb power, with each squadron.

And to what end you may ask yourself? To complete the stave of music at the top of the screen, to hear a chorus of Colonel Bogey. Pigeons fly across the screen chirping and generally minding their own business and the planes swoop down out of the sky from above the cloud bank to drop their loads.

You have three lives and can rattle across the ground to the left and right, avoiding the bombs and planes. Hitting a pigeon or a plane is not too easy and reaps a reward of 120 or 200 points. With each bird hit the next note appears on the stave. If you manage to complete the tune before shooting down that squadron of planes you gain some extra bonus points and the next stave appears on the screen just waiting to be filled in!

The virtuoso Melvyn Wright provides the inspirational music while you load; this time it's A Long Way to Tipperary.

Bruce Smith