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Escape From Moonbase Alpha is a three-dimensional adventure game loosely based on the television series, Dr. Who. The adventure takes place in a series of linked rooms, each of which is represented in a three-dimensional form on the screen when you visit it. This is an unusual and intriguing feature of this game.

The object of the game is to collect as many bags of gold as possible, whilst fighting off the challenge of the various monsters. You start in a room on level zero, and to escape you have to find "The Doctor" who is down on level seven. The price of freedom is ten bags of gold, so make sure you have plenty of gold before finding the Doctor.

Most rooms have various connecting doorways, or stairways, leading to other rooms in the game.

You will sometimes find a 'Tardis' in a room you visit, and if you can enter the Tardis quickly you dematerialise and then reappear in a quite different room: This may help or hinder your progress. As you move through the levels, the monsters becomes stronger and stronger, but at the same time, each bag of gold that you acquire also increases your own strength.

This is a very nice game, with some enjoyable graphics, and makes a nice relaxing change to the "zap 'em" type games. It certainly rates very high in the tables for the best Electron software.