Lunar let down

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There have been many variations on the well-known theme of Lunar Lander and its follower Lunar Rescue. Mayday, from Bevan Technology, is another addition to the list.

You are the pilot of a Gofarit and your task is to land it on a lunar landscape, retrieve some medical supplies and take off. There are two landing pads on the surface and you can pick either, though one pad is smaller and is more difficult to get to. However, landing on this has its advantages in that you score twice as many points.

The actual landing process, although tricky, is only half the battle. It's getting down there that's the difficult bit.

The atmosphere just above the planet's surface is a mass of galactic debris, constantly moving in both directions.

The only way to get down is to use your skill and daring in order to find a way through.

You have keys to control your movement left and right and one to thrust, effectively slowing you down.

When you have landed and collected the supplies, you have to make your way back up to the mothership.

As soon as you take off, all the asteriods change into allien spacecraft. Different...

These follow exactly the same path as the asteroids did on your descent, but they wouldn't be alien spacecraft if they didn't use you for target practice would they?

Although the original appealed to me when it first came out, this version got a bit tiresome after a short while. The problem was that there was nothing special enough about it to hold my attention.

Andy Davies