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If you like budget shoot-'em-ups, this is for you. Otherwise, forget it. There's not much to this game - a pretty basic screen scenario, a lot of aliens to zap, and that's it.

Basically, there are all these aliens coming to attack your base. Four different types of them, to be exact. They drop a lot of bombs and are prone to vanish unexpectedly. You scurry left and right at the bottom of the screen, firing your laser up at them. There are only three keys to worry about - right, left and fire.

Complications - and there aren't many - include satellites, which suddenly appear and drop bombs. And the alien mothership is prone to release smart bombs, which more or less paralyse you for several seconds.

It's a pretty average game. The main thing it has going for it is speed - it's very fast. But there are several irritations. First, it is one of those unwieldly programs which load in several sections, which means you can't go away and make some tea while it's going on.

Second, and more serious, it's liable to crash in such a way that you have to reload from scratch if you want to continue.

Frankly, I have seen better.