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For those of you who've ever wanted to be in charge of a remote asteroid refuelling base - here's your chance! Using a 'Mirror-Angle Laser'. you have to destroy 'drones' and 'pirates', both of which are trying to steal your precious liquid oxygen.

The graphics are chunky and colourful, and the sound is in regular mega-zap style, but the game itself is rather repetitive, since you get the same old set of baddies in each wave.

There's no rest for that trigger finger though, since no interval occurs between levels. The screen just changes From one pretty colour to another and the little display ticks over telling you how many waves you've managed to exterminate.

It also tells you how much energy you've got left, the time it's taking you to kill off the aliens and your score - which, if you get over 2,000 points puts you on the high score table, containing room for no less than...one entry!

The sharper the angle you fire at (by moving closer to the mirror at the far right of the screen), the more points you get. The trouble is more aliens will get past your defences so you're likely to have all your oxygen nicked rather quickly that way.

When a silo is all but empty, the screen will flash red, warning you that the dastardly drones have nearly managed to siphon away your oxygen.

You've got four silos, and when one has been totally drained the top of it changes colour. Once all four are empty, I'm afraid you're dead, and you immediately return to the title screen - a sight for sore eyes - it's bright green.

I'm sorry Talent, but this one didn't have the whole office crowding round raring to have a go.