Home Computing Weekly
15th May 1984
Your garden is full of pests which are more interested in eating you than the grass. Equipped with a pump you can kill the pests by giving each one three quick blasts. There are two types of pests, the Red Goggle Aliens or Footas, which look like an owl, and the Green Dragons or Pubars.
You can tunnel underground, but the pests cannot. The only way they can move from tunnel to tunnel is by turning into ghosts. As the dragon moves around the tunnels it flashes for a few seconds before it breathes fire. If it is facing in your direction, you will die. You can also lose a life if any of the pests catch you.
From level three onwards eight pests appear, and movement is so slow that travelling around the screen becomes a bore. From then on the difficulty never changes.
The keyboard response is sometimes terrible: I often had to press a key twice before I could make my man move.
Please remember that you can only buy this game if you have a 1.2 Operating System. BBC owners who haven't will not be disappointed as they are not missing out on much.
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