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Cylon Attack is excellently documented with twelve screens of instructions and an impressive status display covering everything you need to know to stay in the game.

It also offers a joystick option, a fifty-name hi-score table which can be saved to tape and even a choice of different key layouts for left and right-handed people. All very impressive, but what about the game?

You find yourself on board an 'Earth supply ship' in some unidentified corner of deep space when suddenly the Cylons attack. Come, come, you weren't expecting that, were you? Ejected from the mother ship in a small interceptor craft, your task is to negotiate a settlement with the Cylons by hitting the space-bar and blasting them into small pieces.

The Cylons will take the occasional shot at you, but unless your shield energy has run out they cannot harm you. If you start to run out of fuel you may re-dock with the mother ship during a game and refuel, but shields are only replenished at the end of each attack wave.

Despite the excellent presentation of this game, I found killing Cylons rather tedious and repetitive. There is a £200 prize for the highest score, but sadly this program doesn't have much else to offer.