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As you'd expect from Interceptor, this is a very competent and attractive program, but somehow it just didn't grab me.

The display shows a vertically scrolling underground maze - a popular format for games these days. Interceptor's caverns are populated by a variety of animated sprites including snakes, spiders and bats.

You control a ghostly figure whose objective is to descend through the various levels collecting piles of bones, avoiding the nasties and other booby-traps.

You have nine lives and for each life you are given nine shield points. You lose a life every time you run out of shields, bump into the cavern walls or into the traps, which include moving blocks and electronic devices.

Shields are depleted every time you bump into a sprite. You get extra shield points and a bonus score each time you pick u a pile of bones.

The passages in this game are often very narrow and manoeuvring is sometimes really tricky. The actual design of the maze varies as you descend and includes a graveyard and one or two larger-than-average caverns, but the same baddies and booby-traps persist throughout the game with very little variation.

If this game had come out at the beginning of the year it might well have made it to Game Of The Month, but now it joins a number of other titles with similar ideas, some of which have a lot more variation in gameplay. The graphics here are great, the sound effects okay (no music though) but somehow this program leaves me cold.