I doubt if anyone will have any difficulty loading this program, but once loaded you encounter the first problem: no instructions. The inlay card says you have either a keyboard or a Kempston joystick option. All right, but which keys? This lack of instructions is inexcusable, all the more so because there is quite a lot of memory left spare.

The game is of the space invaders ilk, with the antagonists in the shape of birds, presumably hawks. That they are hawks is confirmed by the fact that every now and again they take time off from raining down bombs to sweep down to get you.

The action is quite smooth except for retaliatory fire, which starts off quite slow, and only speeds up as more and more hawks are shot down.

After enduring two screens of the hawks you are faced with a spaceship which remains stationary while unloading bombs. Your return fire erodes the underbelly of the space ship and, although I penetrated the first layer at dead centre, it still bombed me. There is also no ball of fame feature.

It adds up to the most user-unfriendly game of its kind. Pity.

B.B.