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A familiar mixture of space shoot-'em-up, platforms and ladders, this release from Mirrorsoft brings nothing new to the games scene.

The game has two main scenes. The first has your space fighter zooming around the heavens in search of alien craft known as Guardians. Controlling your fighter takes some skill since it can fly fast, even going right off the screen.

Once you've scored a direct hit you move on to the second scene where you are inside a hatchery containing platforms, escalators, one ladder and one lift. On the platforms are large white eggs. The action starts with a spaceship descending to the bottom of the hatchery. Pressing the fire button has your spaceman popping you ready for work. This preliminary struck me as superfluous, as is the title page at the start of every game.

The idea is to move your spaceman to an egg, give it a few taps (by pressing the fire button) to stop it hatching, and then move on to the next egg. The eggs don't immediately disappear when tapped so you must try to remember which have already been patted.

If untapped, an eye will hatch into a manta ray-like alien which does a quick twirl round the hatchery, fires a few missiles and then exits via an open window. Once you've dealt with the eggs, it's into the spaceship and back to shooting down the aliens.

The game lacks originality and has few saving graces - the graphics are fairly simple, the sound average, and the excitement non-existent. Not bad but there have been better games.