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After loading, a detailed picture of a wasp in hi-res, the huge main program proceeded to load. Apparently, you control the Hellion, a special form of mutant wasp, in a bid to destroy waves of marauding insects.

You start the game with three shields, a new one is awarded every 10,000 points up to a maximum of five. The strength of this - indicated at the bottom of the screen - decreases as you are hit by the missiles released by these hideous insectoids. You can move vertically as well as horizontally and you can fire missiles in the usual shoot-'em-up fashion.

What makes Hellion a class above the rest is its variety of enemies. There are 101 successive screens of differing insectoids, each with its own flight pattern.

The game is ridiculously fast and mean. Not only that, the presentation is also very high quality with options such as variable volume, redefinable control keys, quit game and a facility to start a new game from the highest level achieved in previous games. All in all, a very high quality program.

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