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Big Brother -
presumably of 1984 fame -
has been overthrown but
crucial nuclear plasma has
been stored away on four
other planets. Your mission in
your frail craft is to seek out
the plasma and return it to
save the world.
Sounds familiar - even if not too much like Orwell? Well this is a version of the arcade Gravitar. In fact it starts off like Lunar Lander in reverse -- the first skill to learn is how to take off. You have thrust power but your left and right controls make the craft rotate - and extremely hard to manage. Suss this central control and half the fascination of the game is gone. Once going you have six screens of caverns and landscapes to negotiate - the take off screen, four plasma pick up planets and the tricky fusion core finale. Lots of phews! and cors! here. You might groan at the jokes, folks, but at £1.99 everyone can afford a smile even if the whole program is massed on the action. The music for instance slows down whenever a gratuitous spaceship flies past, and the screens character, not pixel, scroll. One to get your cosmic L-plates on.
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