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This is a lunar shoot-'em-up which appears at first play to be a lot better than it really is. Stop the hordes of alien ships that zoom in on your position with a barrage of shells. Fail, and you get to watch earth being blasted into oblivion.

You have fifty shields for protection and you must destroy a mothership to renew them and progress to another sector.

When I say it at the LET show it looked excellent, with screens of major earth cities like London and Paris. The cassette version does not include these, you have to buy the disk to get those, or the follow-up cassette (Ciphoid 9 Earth Attack) which is a shame because the 3D graphics are very good indeed, with a nice sense of perspective and general definition. It is this quality that saves the game from being simply average and turns it into something just about worth playing, especially for disk owners.