When I saw the word "Invaders" In the title of this cassette, I must confess my heart sank a little. What games-players (and reviewers) look for is something new, exciting, different... not just another version of a tired old game. Then I thought, no, there are so many invaders games on the market already that this surely can't be the same again - it must surely have some new twist to it - so I loaded it with high hopes. I'm sorry to say, though, that these proved unfounded.

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Not only is Android Invaders a conspicuously unoriginal game, it isn't even a good one. There are some major bugs in it which cause you to die helplessly with great speed. I tried playing it with both keyboard and a joystick, at several different levels of difficulty, with the same result every time - I shot one or two little androids, then I apparently got hit by a succession of invisible bombs and the game ended.

What I saw of the game before disappearing in a puff of smoke made it depressingly clear that even without the bugs, this tape would really not be a useful addition to anyone's collection. The graphics are uninspired, the sound effects dull, and the action slow. The attractions promised by the instructions in later phases of the game didn't sound all that enthralling, either.

Sorry, Lyversoft, but this really isn't up to the standards of commercial software nowadays. Back to the drawing-board with this one!