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Battle For Midway is a computer war game. When I saw the title, I thought, great, another Beach Head. It isn't. A manual is supplied with the tape; it is full of vague instructions on how to play the game. Through experience, I have found it best to read the manual whilst playing a practice game. There is a section on Basic Tactics (how to win) - not at all helpful.

So, being the trier I am, I sat down for a long session and tried to defeat the Japanese forces.

The graphics are poor and the game too involved to hold the average micro players attention for long. The first screen is about finding the Japanese fleet on a very boring map, by the way, all the action is timed which tends to draw out the game too much. There is also an Arcade section for the fans, shoot down the bluebottles, or were they Jap fighters, who cares!

Having never played war games before, I might have missed the finer points of the game, but with such poor graphics and lack of action I could not really get into it.