It's good to see that someone else has now started doing Atari titles, and Gremlin Graphics have offered two titles to date, the first of these is called ZoneX, not very original considering that there is another game for the Atari called Zone X.

The game is about going around a mine putting bits of plutonium back into the waste bins they were in originally, but got messed up when some thieves unsuccessfully attempted to steal it.

Far be it from me to point out that plutonium is not termed as being waste, but I thought that plutonium was a nuclear fuel and thorium and lead were the waste elements. Ho hum.

Anyway, you get a certain amount of time to put things right again, and as usual the guard robots cannot be switched off while you go in and to your job; this must make it hell to actually fix anything that goes wrong.

The game is actually quite a nice maze-like game, similar to a scrolling robo-tron, but you can't shoot a thing, to my mind at least, this is a bad move on the author's behalf, but it does make the game a little more of a strategy/Bounty Bob type game.

There are keys, spades, bonuses, doors, robots and twirling things to aid and maraude you, and overall the game is quite enjoyable. There is however no option to stop the music, which, although nice, does get on your nerves slightly. Well, actually, quite a lot.

The game is well finished and has a lot of nice touches, like a gremlin hanging over the intro page, and a help screen to show you all the nasties.

The game does suffer however in that the Atari computer is capable of a lot better things, and although this is a good game, it is not of the same standard that some of the American software houses have produced in the past.

The graphics are good, if a little chunky, and the movement could have been better animated; this done not detract from the gameplay since the whole thing is fairly addictive, but on first presentation it may put some people off.