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Altogether a dull game unless your bag happens to include naval manoeuvres and wargames.

Uninspiring graphics and slow reactions to keys depressed. This could be a good game, but, from the looks of it, it is in BASIC which makes it rather slow.

The game involves your ship, the Graf Spee going in search of enemy ships and shooting them down. The reactions, as said before, are slow (but then again, so are the controls on your average WWII battleship) and therefore you may be pressing the right key many times but without any results - these come along later when least expected. To find your enemy you have to guide your 'blip' of a ship onto flashing dots which seem to move equally as randomly as you do.

If all this sounds like a watery version of the classic 'Star Trek' game that first appeared on CP/M S100 machines back in the days when you could still get a copy of 'Byte' through an average letterbox, then you're right. For 'Klingons' read 'Royal Navy'. Once you have the luck to see the enemy, you press SEARCH and the screen shows a representation of the sea. You have torpedoes and guns with which to shoot your enemy with. The game ends very abruptly, you may become promoted to Admiral, or advised to seek refuge in South America before the Fuhrer gets to you.

I wonder how all this goes down with our Teutonic Brothers...?