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Silicon brings you the internal world of the microprocessor, a la the film Tron.

On loading the screen is set up for a four-way scroll over a network of gold lines overlaid on a black background. The lines represent the circuitry of a CPU.

Your task is to collect stray binary bits within the processor using a joystick-controller android called M.A.D., or Miniature Android Debugger. The bits are shown in pulsating geometric forms. When M.A.D. has a maximum load of four bits, they are taken to an output port in the top right-hand corner of the chip layout and discharged.

There are other difficulties. Insectile bugs wander along transmission lines; contact with them is deadly. And a superbug, called a glitch, will announce its occasional presence with the sound of a quickening heartbeat. Unless found and destroyed, it will detonate and you will lose one of your three lives.

Clearing a chip or zapping a glitch brings bonus points. There are many levels of play.

A neat little game; enjoyable but not remarkable. It will probably find a home on the shelves of fast-action maze game enthusiasts.

T.A.