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This should have been called Duck Invaders or Duck Galaxians, because basically that's what it amounts to.

Instead of aliens, you have ducks and instead of a space ship there is a gun-toting farmer.

It's a shoot-'em-up game of the type we have all seen before and probably most of us don't really want to see again. Nothing new here that hasn't already been done one way or another in so many other games and in most cases far better.

You probably have the impression by now that I don't like this game and you're dead right! I can only guess that Firebird have released it with young kids in mind who don't have £7.95 to spend and want a fairly simple cheapo game. If this is the case, I don't see the sense in it when the Beeb is such an upmarket machine.

The verdict of my eight-year-old nephew and his pals after playing Duck! was "too boring and too easy".

The only thing I found good about this game was the title tune that plays during loading which is an excellent rendition of Offenback's "La Belle Helene".

Incidentally, the last part of the game is loaded independently of the computer's cassette filing system using the program's own routine. You won't get this game onto Replica in a month of Sundays!

All in all, Duck! gets the big thumbs down from me, I'm sad to say.

Peter Rochford