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What a relief to play a game, get thrashed, collapse in heaps of laughter and then try again and again and again. If you are like me, you will laugh at the wrong times and forget what you are doing. It gives the program an extra advantage as you laugh away another life.

You are a spaceship above the moon, running out of fuel, and your shipmates are stranded on the surface. All you have to do is pick them up - by the head! Easy, you may think. Well, it would be if only the Lunar Leepers with their voracious appetites would stop eating the castaways and spaceships!

Once you have completed this task, stage two begins. Your mission: to boldly go where no spaceships should ever be and (fans of The Perishers cartoon strip will love this) shoot the eyeball in the sky. As luck would have it, the eyeball is at the end of a cave defended by Trabants.

The game is on one disk with an accompanying fold-over instruction card. The instructions are brief but accurate and the game allows a keyboard, joystick or Atari joyport for controls. If the keyboard is selected, the player is asked to define which keys are to be used during play. Once into the game, the graphics and sound are excellent.

Starting at level one of eight, the play is relatively easy, as long as you suppress the odd chortle. In fact, it is worth making a few mistakes just to see the results. As you move up through the levels, more Leepers and spaceship-like Trabants hinder your mission. Eventually, Trabants become unkillable. This may be unfair but it does increase the excitement.

I so enjoyed this game that I assumed I was biased. But I coerced a couple of non-game players to have a go. Result? Addiction.