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As can be deduced from the title this is an arcade style game with a couple of unusual touches to it. One of which is the use of a tickertape type of display at the base of the screen which gives a resume of the story so far.

You play the role of Brad whose mission (should you care to accept it!) is to try and reach the planet Delta 10, upon which reside the warlike Galactic Barbarians who have discovered a super power serum, which you must destroy.

Sounds easy, eh? Well you have five stages to battle through before discovering the secret lab. Nothing particularly special about this game although some variety in the screens does give it a somewhat addictive quality. The graphics are good, the sounds, given the Spectrum''s somewhat limited ability, are adequate, but one minor irritation is having to go through all the instructions each time the game is played which is rather time consuming.

An interesting point with this game is its strange ability to be able to interfere with cordless telephones!! While fighting through level two strange sounds were heard to emanate from my telephone upon picking up the receiver I found I had called someone in Australia, quite a useful feature in a games program although somewhat random in its application. Perhaps the computer was trying to contact the Galactic Barbarians by phone and save the trouble finding the secret lair...

The cursor keys are O to fire 5-left, 8-right, and 6-down which I found somewhat difficult, a nice feature would have been user defined keys but I suppose amember of the Intergalactic Security Network should not be concerned with such mundane matters.

Overall, this is quite an interesting game but not one that would keep me up to the early hours. There are far too many games of the "zap 'em all" variety for this to be anything special, but worth its purchase price, I suppose!!