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This game puts you in charge of a large space freighter; your mission is to find the Super Computer and bring it back to the Solar System. However, the computer must be bought for a large sum of rare metals; this makes it necessary to first explore the five nearby star systems, leaving robot mining colonies on planets rich in minerals and gemstones.

It is also important to keep your supplies of food, water, air and fuel topped up. Hostile aliens may attack you, so it is important not to aggravate them. Friendly or neutral inhabitants may be subjugated or made members of the Empire.

Controls are very simple; just the cursor keys and a few others. The game has one of the best sets of built-in instructions I have seen, and a save game facility is also provided - games take a long time.

Although well-written and thought-out, it is very monotonous; you always seem to be doing the same things. A winning technique is easily mastered, and once the computer is taken to the solar system, there is no point in playing the game again in my view, except possibly to improve your score.

Overall, I would say that this is a well-programmed game, which falls flat on its face because it has little or no lasting appeal.