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Remember a game called Space Firebird? Well, playing this game will remind you of it as it is a straight (unlicensed) copy of the game.

You control a spaceship that has to destroy the marauding aliens. These aliens come down the screen in standard swooping, circling Galaxian fashion and you can zap them with your laser gun. Alternatively, once a round you can turn on your shields and fly up the screen - destroying everything that you touch.

Insight are the company that produced Subterranian Stryker - which was a very good game, Space Fighter was also a very good game four years ago, and I enjoyed playing this fairly accurate copy. However, at £7.95 I could think of better things to do with my money.

As an interesting sideline, the cassette has the Amstrad and Sinclair versions on the same tape.

A good game, but after seeing Mastertronic's latest releases for the Spectrum, and the eight quid off price tag for this game, I start to think...