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The No. 29 game in our All-Time Top 100 finally touches down on Planet Cheap, and what a re-entry it's going to make, I reckon. One of our very favourite arcade games of all-time, and one of the very finest examples of the coin-op converter's art to boot. Pang takes a couple of old arcade classics (Asteroids and Galaxians), welds them together with a hint of 90s gorgeous backdrops) and comes up with a hugely playable and massively addictive game with a feel of its own, as huge and strangely convincing balloons wobble and bounce around the screen to be harpooned by two little guys in safari suits...

It's all completely fab, then, but the very best bit is the two-player mode. Two players compete/co-operate at the same time, but if one gets killed, the screen immediately ends and both players have to start it again with all the enemy balloons restored to their original state, which causes some severe ructions when a more talented player is continually kiboshed by his uncoordinated pal.

It all just adds to the fun in the end, though, so don't even consider hesitating -go buy it at once.

An absolutely genuine, bona fide real McCoy-type classic game at a bargain price.