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From the man who's brought you more llamas and camels than you care to name, this latest offering should delight everyone from newcomers to arcade junkies.

As a metagalactic llama you live comfortably on some outpost of a forgotten part of the galaxy, doing what metagalactic llamas do.

Suddenly, all this calm is devastatingly ended by an attack from ZZyaxian cyborg arachnid mutants (spiders). These crawl down the screen on their webs, and on reaching a certain point, or if you shoot the web, they fall to the ground and mutate into disgusting weeviloids. Next, they start to crawl along the floor after you, poor defenceless llama, all alone in the screen's centre.

Well, not quite defenceless. You are armed with lasers in your spit, and you do have control over an experimental Planar field generator.

So, the battle commences and in the best tradition you must destroy everything before it gets you. With 99 levels of play (yes, ninety-nine) who will survive? Llama, or weeviloids?

Considering this is written for the unexpanded Vic, you could be forgiven for thinking the programmer had slipped in a few extra K of memory with the cassette.

You start by choosing one of 32 skill levels. That done, it's all hands to the joystick and the action commences.

On the lower levels the spiders appear singly, and crawl along at fairly slow speed. Your laser spit can travel a reasonable distance and can bounce off the sides of the screen. Though it wields death to the spiders you fortunately can't shoot yourself.

The Planar field generator is in fact a horizontal line you can move up and down the screen. Laser spit also bounces off this, so putting it into the right position can mean an early destruction for some unlucky spiders.

Weeviloids require some skilful shooting and faced with two weeviloids you might as well forget it.

It gets ever more frantic, as the waves of spiders come down at ever-increasing speeds. Everyone will have a try at level 32, but they won't last more than a few seconds.

A good, if not a great, game. You probably won't while away too many evenings, since it does begin to pall after a while, but for those first few games you will not believe that it's an unexpanded Vic in front of you.