A long time ago, Paul Woakes (of Damocles fame) wrote a game called Encounter for the old Atari 8-bit computers. Now there's his official ST version. You pilot a vehicle zooming across a landscape. You must shoot various spacecraft that come haring in at you and avoid the large cylinders that reflect your shots. At the end of each wave, you go into space and must avoid meteorites. Then it's back to the ground again.

To be frank, Encounter is boring. There's just not enough to do. Sure, the graphics are smooth and the sound's not bad, but simply roving over the ground endlessly shooting things isn't any fun. The game may have been lauded back in 1984 but nowadays we want something more. Wait for Damocles 2 instead.