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Fresh from their success with Starquake, Bubble Bus set out to win over the pocket money people with Brainstorm - and it's a budget game that thinks it's a full price program.

Unlike many budget games Brainstorm is a high quality, highly playable game. Here's what it's all about.

Professor Brainstorm had perfected a cloning system to produce a replica of any living creature.

People were afraid of the Professor and his creation, so he hid himself away on a lost planet and built a castle.

He constructed a warp tunnel to trap any creatures that happened to be passing by, so that he could perfect his cloning system to an even greater degree, which he would then use against his "enemies" on Earth.

However, his plan backfired and the Clones he created turned against him and devoured him.

Over the years they grew hungrier and hungrier, until one day our hero, Robin Banks, happened to be passing by, zapping aliens and generally minding his own business, when he was sucked into Professor Brainstorm's warp tunnel.

He found himself surrounded by hungry Clones. Escape from the castle is his only hope of survival.

The game has 650 different locations, 28 varieties of Clones, 62 doors to find and open using keys that are scattered around and eight Guardians of the Tower.

Only three keys may be carried at any one time and only one of the special weapons.

At the bottom of the screen there are two gauges, one for energy the other for damage. This can be repaired at the cost of some energy, or by finding a repair damage pod.

The graphics are above standard for a budget game, the sounds are average for the Spectrum - and the game has that all-important addictiveness. Tremendous value for just £1.99.