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Your suspicions about this program are first aroused when you discover that it loads in well under a minute. They're confirmed when you start playing. It's junk.

According to the drivel on the cassette inlay, you're supposed to be a battleflier shooting up alien ships in a battlefield constructed by the enemy.

What actually appears on screen is a grid speckled with a few coloured blobs; one of which is you, the rest the enemy.

You can move right or left (not up as the instructions tell you) and fire. The game's only hint of novelty is that the 'rays' from your gun bounce off shields placed at angles on the grid.

This means you can destroy aliens which aren't directly above you - while they can't destroy you because their shots don't bounce. Strange way to build a defensive battlefield.

The game is pathetically easy to master and is unlikely to sustain interest for more than a few minutes.

Although the motion is smooth, all the moving objects are the size of single characters, and there's no attempt at animation.

The game's title, incidentally, bears no relation to what happens - it must be a reference to the reaction of people who actually buy this rubbish.