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This is a Game in a Brain. You take the part of a brain surgeon for model QT robots which are in dire need of repair. You are transported inside the robotic brain where your task is to repair leaking 'mezoplasmic' and lubrication pipes using fixation blobs which you gather up in the different sectors of the brain you pass through. There is a catch, of course. The brain is infested with bugs which you must destroy with your fixative blobs or temporarily thwart with repulsa blobs. There are both yellow and blue bugs and you must use the matching coloured fixative to destroy them. The left hand side of the screen shows you an overall view of the brain together with information on how badly damaged the different parts of the brain are.

Your aim is to get the brain damage to less than 20%, at which point a part of the brain is blacked indicating the presence of an energiser you have to get before the heat of the brain goes critical and you lose a life.

The controls are simple - being up, down left, right and fire, and they are all responsive and well laid out; alternatively, the game is Sinclair, Kempston, or cursor-type joystick compatible. The graphics are clear and colourful - when you run into a fixative blob your Microbot changes colour to that of the sticky stuff, and you can sense the slime covering you. A simple game in principle, highly playable in practice.