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A space game of the Asteroids variety.

You are in command of a space ship returning from hyperspace into the meteors. To protect yourself, you need to blast the rocky lumps to smithereens with your hyper-blasters.

Your ship can be rotated and driven forward by manipulating your thrust controls, and points are scored by hitting the various sized meteors.

From time to time, a space bandit will attempt to wipe you out and you need to exercise some skill to fend him off. If you do, then a fat bonus is of course clocked up.

The game is recorded in a rather clumsy way, involving loading two successive files from tape. I am sure that this could be tidied up considerably.

Part machine code, part Basic, the action is quite smooth, but suffers from a lack of colour.

Sound effects are reasonable but not particularly special, and the graphics are rather simple.

I was left with the feeling that this was a good start to a game that had not been properly finished.

If more variety and colour were available, it would be able to graduate from being just another game to something potentially very good.

P.W.