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Your mission in this game is to vaporize the mutant warriors before they over-run your home planet. The evil ruler of the planet Rooskee has launched an attack and the Mother creature filled with irradiated vodka, transforms helpless slaves captured on peaceful planets into bloodthirsty Communist Mutants. You have the responsibility of wiping out wave after wave of them.

As with all Starpath games the first screen you will see when you switch on the Atari will show clear instructions on how to load in the game and then, once you have done this, a deep, slow reproduction of the scales can be heard.

There are a good number of options within the game, including a choice of one to four players, difficulty levels one to nine, the choice of having shields and time warps - although you can only use these once until a new wave of mutant attackers or a cannon appears - and you may choose to have penetrating fire and guided fire. All these add up to you being able to customize your own variation of Communist Mutants From Space.

As soon as play begins your anti- mutant cannons will be under attack. The Mother Creature will constantly create Commie Mutants. The attackers start as mutant eggs and soon hatch into nasty creatures. Some of the eggs may not hatch, but these are actually shield-penetrating bombs in disguise.

Each time the mutants hit one of your cannons, it explodes and a reserve is called up. When the last cannon is destroyed the game is over, but bonus cannons are awarded on each odd-numbered wave of mutant attackers.

Your cannons will never run out of ammunition, so you can continually shoot at the enemy. Points are gained by destroying the hairy-looking Mother Creature, the diving mutant attackers that are green and run around the screen on their little legs, mutant eggs and clearing the screen of all attackers - achieving this earns a flag.

High score and your score will be displayed at the end of each game. An instruction booklet is included with the game and also, previews of other Supercharger games can be seen on the screen if you follow the instructions in the back of the booklet on how to load them in from the tape.

This is an average space invader game. You have to shoot anything in sight and it does not live up to its wonderful title! The usual shooting and exploding noises can be heard, but the graphics are fairly good.