Well, folks, the cat's out of the bag. The highbrows at Acorn User magazine *do* play games with their Beebs. They've written Trek and sneaked it out the back door when they thought nobody was looking. Mind you, they don't make it easy, it's a complicated game - three on-board computers, two weapons systems, seven screen displays... and it takes some time to get used to. The object of the exercise is to patrol the universe, doing a pest control number on a fleet of alien spacecraft.

The trouble is that it's in Mode 7, and I had a bit of trouble with the stunning realism of a starship, represented by a small and rather lonely arrow. In fact, after all the guff in the build-up, it's a bit of a disappointment.