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Exciting instructions and a very attractive title screen, but the game fails to live up to its image.

According to the blurb, you have made a forced landing on a distant planet and must collect fuel capsules to escape. Unfortunately, the planet Kalanium is populated by rather hostile robots who are understandably upset that you are stealing their fuel. They patrol, ready to gun you down. They are quite stupid too - for no apparent reason they will often bump into each other and disintegrate.

A tediously long introduction has to be sat through at the beginning of each life as your humanoid and the robots take up positions. On losing a life, the computer plays a very downbeat version of the Funeral March.

Use of graphics is very limited, although sound and colour are quite good. You soon find to your cost that the green robots are indestructable.

Although I cannot understand why, I found the game quite compulsive at first. This soon wears off when you are faced with more and more robots to disintegrate.

T.B.