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Roger has been careless enough to let a pack of thieving aliens steal his spaceship and spread it about the local planet. Now he's "wreckless" enough to try to go and get it back. However, probably the most reckless thing of all would be to buy this game.

It's basically a single screen game where Roger appears with his jet pack and a laser, flying around a rectangular box. Into the box appear alien objects, two at a time, intent on killing Roger. He has to blast them away until they stop re-appearing, although there are only ever two of them on screen at once. After a while they stop coming and Roger can move horizontally or vertically to a new screen where the only difference will be the border design.

The aliens follow simple movement patterns around the screen and come in quite a nice variety of shapes. If Roger runs into the aliens, they gradually sap his energy until he loses one of this three lives, all of which is done very jerkily indeed.

That's all there is to the game - just flying about the screen dodging the aliens and blasting mindlessly away at them. The only evidence that this isn't a one screen shoot-'em-up is the changing borders and the occasional occurrence of a piece of ship. This may numb your mind for five minutes before making it shrivel up completely.

The awful pun of the title is right and fitting for the awful game that follows. It's a museum piece that should have been kept in its case.

P. It doesn't disable the Reset keys.

N. Monotonous gameplay.
N. Rotten sound.
N. Every screen is the same.