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A total of five space-type games - three short machine code arcade games and two in Basic, which is listed after you have finished and explained line by line using REMs.

The machine code games are quite simple but fun, being sufficiently different from each other to make quite an attractive package. Space Chase was the hardest, involving lining an alien up in your sights ready for blasting. Astro-war is a right to left scrolling screen in which you avoid asteroids and kill Clyngons. The third, Galaxy provides useful training in a variation of the classic space-invaders.

The Basic programs were also enjoyable and, for budding programmers, provide some useful hints.

All loaded OK, but I would have preferred a method of ending the machine code programs without switching on and off.

Good use of colour and sound and a pamphlet explains each in adequate detail, although printing is rather small.

All in all, a nice package for arcade fans although, of course, five short games cannot rival the more sophisticated Oric programs now available.

P.S.W.