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Galaxy Jailbreak is a sort of cross between Galaxians and Breakout, and it's not a bad combination.

The scenario is this. You've captured some alien generals and put them into your prison where you're guarding them with your stellar missile base. The generals' soldiers are bent on freeing their leaders, so they hyperspace on to the screen and start bouncing around.

They try to free the generals by bouncing onto the walls of the prison which slowly begins to crumble. You have to stop them by firing at them with your missile base which can unleash a salvo of five missiles at a time.

But the real trouble starts when a general gets free, or when you hit a soldier. Once a general is free, it starts bouncing around like the soldiers, and if you hit it, it turns into three soldiers.

No problem, you might be thinking, hit the soldiers. But when you hit them, they turn into bombs which start falling down - possibly on you!

Points are scored for hitting just about everything that moves except the bombs. You can hit the bombs if you wish, but high scoring is only achieved by zapping the generals.

In play, things get quite confusing after a while, with lots of blobs bouncing around the screen. I resorted to moving left and right and spraying missiles as I went. This works for a while, but in the end, things get so cluttered that your three lives get used up rather fast.

Regardless of your inevitable doom, Galaxy Jailbreak is good fun. There's lots to watch out for and it should keep most trigger-fingers occupied for quite a while.