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Saracoid, Ultron, Wizzy's Mansion, TRIPLE GAME PACK 1
Alternative Software
£2.99
1989
Sent By: Peter Bay, M'BRO

This is a pack of three games all on one cassette for the Acorn BBC
or the Electron.  I have taken the quotes from the inlay card:

SARACOID

GAME OVERVIEW
	
The Saracoids are blob-like alien life forms that float through Outer
Space, taking energy from any planet that they come across.  For self
defence, they group together in long strings that snake down through the
atmosphere in various stage formations.  The warning is out that the
Saracoids may soon be passing by Earth.  They will undoubtedly want to
stop and repelish their energy supplies.  You have been given the job of
mannin the missile launcher with orders to prevent the Saracoids landing -
for if they once touch the ground they mutate, taking on a
different form, and immediately home in on the nearest living thing -
which, in this case, is YOU!  Good pilots may be able to survive by utilising
the full monoeuvrability of the launcher.  As well as moving from side to
side on the ground, it can hover up to a certain altitude in the air. Radar
has spotted 24 different waves coming in.  You'd better get familiar with
the controls quick!

Peter:-  This game is not too bad, but it sometimes gets a bit boring
after about 5 goes, but it is not too bad.  The graphics are quite good
and so is the sound, the explosion effects are very convincing.


ULTRON

GAME OVERVIEW

The year 2673 AD and the galaxy is once more under seige from aliens
of the planet Gorfia.  Your mission is to destroy the oncoming convoys
with speed, skill and dexterity.  This time the invaders are more
sophisticated and much more determined to eradicate you.  But you have
the most powerful craft in the universe - the ULTRON.

You begin your mission as a Cadet, but may rise through the ranks and
become the ultimate Space Master.  There are eight ranks to go through
and even then it gets even harder.  Four screens go together to make
up one wave.  The screens are...

Space Swarmers - Swarming mutants who release hordes of homing missiles -
worth 30 points.

Glactic Imps - Approaching infantry whose sole aim is to infilrate your
defences - 50 points

Space Warp - Aliens that loom out in 3D distracting you with the aim of
disintegrating your craft - 100 points.

Mothership - Blast the alien's supreme commander, situated in the
nerve centre of the Mothership - 200 points

Occasionally a reconnaissance ship will fly past over the scene dropping
missiles.  The points for hitting the ship are radomly either 250 or 500
points.

Peter:- This is the gem of the pack, this game is really good.  It is
really a cross between that excellent game Pheonix and Galaxions.
Great game play, and good graphics and sound.


More next disk.  We need more!

Dan Wood
3 Cavendish Drive
Northlands
Darlington
DL1 2GQ