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This game is described as an arcade adventure and from the loading time you have a fair indication of the amount of detail you can expect.

During the loading there is a nice gothic title which may lead you to expect something of the old Mary Shelley original. Not so. Whilst still loading you get an interesting split-screen picture of the human internal organs in full glorious technicolour. A couple of horizontal bars indicate oxygen and damage.

My pre-release copy did not contain any detailed instructions other than keyboard controls but it is hoped that some additional documentation will be provided. There was no explanation of the objective or description of the scene but you can work it out as you go.

When loading is complete the left-hand side of the screen has you in a mini-submarine travelling downwards through the trachea (that's the windpipe!). Coming upwards are some form of blobs which could be various antibodies and which you can destroy with torpedoes. Touch them or the sides of the trachea and you sustain damage.

Meanwhile your journey is recorded on the body to the right with a flashing cursor. If you complete a stage you move on into the lung, meeting white corpuscles and so on.

It was an interesting game initially, with well-designed graphics, but failed to sustain that interest. [ could find no way of repairing the damage - perhaps there's something I've missed - and never lasted further than the lung.

Incidentally if this sounds familiar then it's because it's remarkably like a film called Fantastic Voyage, made in 1966. Could this be a clue to the journey? A new twist to zapping aliens.

M.P.