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This is a fairly standard Space Invaders-type game with formations of invaders that move across and then down the screen while you shoot them out of the sky with your trusty laser. The game is in colour, and is apparently well-written.

Key control is smooth, and alien movement begins slowly but gets very fast towards the end of a screen. A nice feature of the program is the variety of options that can be chosen before the start of the game.

These include faster laser fire, faster invaders, faster bombs and invisible invaders. The speeding up achieved by these options is considerable, so that if you chose to have faster laser fire, but leave the invaders normal, then you could quite easily put on a pretty credible performance. Invisible invaders was a bit disappointing in that their bombs were also invisible, which made it rather too difficult to play for my liking.

My only reservations about the game are on the graphics, which were much better than adequate, but left me thinking that a higher resolution mode should ideally have been used, but this would have resulted in a less colourful display. This program represents quite a good buy.