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A cracking game this... cracking, get it? Oh, never mind! Star Eggs is an original game from Mirrorsoft which combines a shoot-'em-up with a platform game. Creatures from outer space are heading towards earth intent on destroying it.

Before you can get to the eggs, you must destroy the guardian ships - there is one on each screen. This done you can enter the incubator.

To manoeuvre around the platforms, there are ladders and sloping escalators and, on the later levels, steps. There is a transporter lift on the left hand side of the screen to get you up or down.

There are also guns around the screen which you can use to shoot down the occasional monster which hatches. But the aim of the game is to bash the egg over the head before it hatches and releases its space-ship.

Control of the characters and the various machines is with the joystick and, although this may sound hard, it is just a matter of positioning and then pressing the fire button.

If eight space-craft hatch and escape the earth will be destroyed before your very eyes. Less than eight and you will have a fighting chance of survival

The graphics are quite good, especially the movement of yourself and your spacecraft. But the 'monsters' float aimlessly once they are hatched and then drift out of the incubator. A bit more action wouldn't have gone amiss.

The sound though is brilliant. There are three different tunes, all of which leave you tapping your foot, and humming the tune for the rest of the day.

The game is unbelievably addictive - only a blown fuse should prevent you from continuing. Let's hope Mirrorsoft can continue to 'hatch out' more games like Star Eggs to keep us on the boil!!!

I particularly liked the graphic interlude of the earth moving through space, and the way your spacewoman climbed the ladders.

I had no complaints about the hatching screen, although I found the ship rather difficult to control in the space screen. It picked up speed too quickly. Overall, I was impressed.

The egg-bashing, omelette-making part of this game is great and you have to be real fast to stop every one of those eggs hatching. The space shoot-'em-up seemed superfluous though and if it had to be included, it should have been improved. Despite this I still liked the game and the cracking stage has a real lasting challenge.

The graphics depicting the heroine and the other characters are bright, colourful and well-animated. For example, her ducking movement is very smooth with no nasty flickering.

With three difficulty ratings from raw, through hardboiled, to eggspert some people may find it challenging, although for me this game held no eggscitement!