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You have the task of defending a nuclear reactor from invading 'droids, by operating a laser, which you can move up and down a column in the centre of the screen.

There are various platforms up each side of the screen, off which the 'droids parachute, falling to the bottom of the screen, where they are whipped round a circuit in the reactor, to be transmuted into flying plus signs which float up and down, shooting at your laser base. If you can shoot the droids while they are in the parachute stage of their metamorphosis, this is desirable, since it prevents them from turning into nasty plus signs.

Selectable difficulty and hall of fame are included, as are multi-wave attacks. However, I could not find any user-definable keys as promised by the cassette inset and I was a little disappointed to find each new wave attack was much the same as the one before.

On the plus side, good use was made of colour and sound, and the game balance of progress versus defeat was about right. The plot is also fairly original.

M.B.