Laser Lord

Big K

Graphics 0/3

Playability 0/3

Addictiveness 0/3

Overall 0/3

Fin Fahey 0/3

MAKER: Century City FORMAT: cassette PRICE: £1.99 Are you suffering from micro nostalgia? Hankering for those halcyon days of games when any fourth-former could knock out and sell a Space Invaders variant in a weekend? When expectations were low and dividends high! Century City have decided to provide software just for you. Laser Lord makes no concessions whatsoever to originality or visual appeal, and has the sheer audacity to limit the player to only one space invader at a time. Don't want to get them too involved, eh? There is the occasional meteor, to be fair, but I can't say that I let it worry me. Movement, left, right and fire, is sluggish, but I didn't really care much - one game was enough. Breathtakingly nasty.

C&VG (Computer & Video Games)

CHEAP THRILLS! Following the spate of companies offering very cheap software for the Spectrum and Commodore 64, yet another software house has emerged promising games tapes for under £2. Century City, a new company based in the West Midlands, has launched a series of four titles for the 16 and 48K Spectrum. Laser Lord is a fairly typical "protect the world from the nasty googly-eyed Martians", sort of game. The second game, Man Trap, is a tactical war game, in which you yet again "attempt to save the world from almost certain destruction". Sentinels is Century City's answer to Galaxians on the Spectrum. The fourth game is Kamikaze Collector. Century is also planning a new range of software costing £2.99 each which they claim is comparable with software selling for £6 or £7.