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It's a year of living dangerously and Krazy Kopter provides you with enough deadly attacks to wish you'd never put this Atari cassette into the cassette player, but stick with it it becomes challenging too.

You are at war with a neighbouring country and two of your top secret agents have been captured. With the aid of a hi-jacked green army truck your buddies set off across the canyon's bridges to home-base.

This is where you come inand have a chance to display your skills. Grab your helicopter controls and navigate them safely home. In hot pursuit though, are the enemy's cars who are determined to halt your chances of freedom, blast them by pressing the joystick button and do not allow them to reach the other side of the bridge. If you do, you will be frozen to the spot as a navy missile of lethal force homes in on you.

When you hit a car it changes colour and starts moving in the opposite direction. Be sure and watch the other bridges because the cars appear randomly on all three. Beware of the narrow canyons ridges on the lower bridge as crashing into its side will mean instant death and one less helicopter.

At the pit of the canyon a river flows where the enemy's ship patrols firing frantically when you come within its range leaving you and your helicopter to plummet down into the deepest waters.

As you progress to each level the play becomes faster with level three presenting a real challenge, a triangular-shaped UFO darts around the screen moving upwards. It's a question of zap or be zapped if it reaches the top of the screen.

The graphics inspire a certain amount of realism especially when your helicopter crashes into the water, and the colours are bright and lively.

Although at first the game seemed difficult, after a short while you are able to anticipate relatively accurately where the cars will appear and you can dart around the screen and deal with the mission in hand.

This tape loaded first time with no hitches and the instructions were clear and precise.