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Now we come onto a game of bad taste. A nuclear reactor is about to melt down and it is up to you to go through the works and operate all the pressure valves in order to release the excess pressure and flood the core, which will hopefully shut down the reactor. Having done all this, if you solve the puzzle presented to you, there is the chance of winning a Mystery Prize.

With the jesting in the instructions, "Luckily, the worst that can happen is an enormous radiation leakage that could wipe out half of the South Coast" and "Shutdown the reactor before it shuts you down", I was put off immediately. This sort of idea, much the same as war inducing games, in unnecessary and far better games can be produced without this overhanging threat.

To add to this, the game is not very good. The graphics are inferior to even the Manic Miner type and I could not get further than the first screen, even after about two hours of painful trying.