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Quite why Nexus released Blazer so closely after Hades Nebula is a bit of a mystery. The two games are pretty similar, although personally I prefer this excursion into the tried and tested shoot-'em-up format.

Like Hades you fly your space fighter up the screen blasting on coming aliens and shooting up ground installations. Like Hades you can collect extra bits of firepower from pods on the surface of asteroids and space stations.

Like Hades, the game is initially very difficult to master. Things move fast! Like Hades there's a neat high-score table with a gimmicky way of putting your name up in lights.

Other than that, you've seen this game many times before.

It's nicely presented and packaged with good sound effects and pretty graphics - but it's still a standard shoot-'em-up without a big arcade name to give you a reason to rush out and get it.