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After an over-long loading sequence, four star bases appear.

Pressing P brings a spacecraft onto the screen followed by five intrepid spaceman. The first man is "beamed" on board and a letter appears in each of the bases. The spaceman himself changes into one of those letters.

The idea is to steer the craft plus letter to dock with the base containing the same letter, using the cursor keys.

If the letters match, the ship returns to the home port and beams down the successful spaceman before picking up the next. When all five have completed their mission they return to the ship and are carried home, ready to begin again.

The cursor controls are easy to operate, but are, I feel, expecting a bit too much from a young child.

Perhaps the program would be best sutied to a child in the early school years who is having problems with letter recognition.

Alternatively it could be used by a younger child with parental involvement - a situation Longman quite rightly encourage with all their software.

An interesting program, full of colour, movement and sound. My three year old loved it!

C.B.