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Don't put another penny in the Centipede machines but buy this tape instead. It is actually better than its arcade counterpart; quite a feat on the Spectrum!

A field of mushrooms sets the scene, in which a horde of Centropods move up and down, turning when they reach a mushroom and intent upon your destruction. These bothersome bugs can be beaten off with your can of insect repellent.

Occasionally a spider will bounce around menacingly and hitting this atrocious arachnid scores bonus points, as does hitting the fiddly flea who turns existing mushrooms rotten and manages to lay new ones in just the wrong places!

From time to time a rather stately looking snail glides across the screen, resisting all efforts to stop him.

The game makes the best use of just about every capacity the Spectrum has. The graphics are superb and the colours well chosen. Excellent use of sound too: as you clear one horde, the next descends faster and screaming at a higher pitch.

No self-respecting Spectrum owner or arcade player can afford to miss this game. As I write this review I still have a sore trigger finger from too much playing. Need I say more?

T.B.