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Mayday is essentially a Lunar Lander type game, i.e. your craft is launched from the mothership and you must land on one of the two pads at the bottom of the screen.

The first odd thing I noticed about this game was that there didn't appear to be any gravitational pull, so there are only two speeds - fast (without thrust) and slow (with).

Once landed and stopped for a quick cuppa, you must take off again, avoiding aliens who drop bombs on your shuttle. I found getting down onto the pads easy, and the asteroids weren't too bad, but getting back to the mothership was quite a challenge.

To make the game more interesting and addictive, there are several different colourful screens and graphics are good, if a little flickery.

I found one bug: when the explosion of your ship takes place, bits fly everywhere, yet the image of your craft remains at the bottom of the screen.

Mayday comes with a screenshot on the front of the inlay (this is left out on many games, and such an omission always makes me suspicious of the content), but it's not a game I'd rush out and buy.