You are a hard-working garbage collector whose job is to keep space clear of nuclear waste. At the helm of your intergalactic garbage ship you must navigate towards the space dump, pick up barrels of waste and deposit them in the black hole beneath you.

Unfortunately, you are hampered in your task by laser cannons which have malfunctioned and which fire at you in sequence; also if you get too close to the black hole, you will be sucked into it; if you are not close enough you will not be able to drop your barrels.

Control keys are A and Z to move up and down, < and > to move left and right, and D to dtop a barrel. If your bonus runs out before you have cleared a screen you lose a life, and if you manage to drop all the barrels you move to a new screen where the firing of the laser cannons becomes more frequent.

Galactic Garbage was written for the BBC B by John Gascoyne of Kings Lynn, Norfolk.