Here's an absolute corker! Star Dodge, like all the best games, is the simplest of ideas coupled with the funkiest of fast gameplay to provide a space-based thrash that will keep you playing long after the rest are gathering dust at the bottom of your toy-box.  
Play area consists of star field dotted around with killer meanies (asterisks actually, but use your imagination, OK?). You have to cross the star field without hitting the meanies and squeeze through a black hole at the far side of the screen. The trouble is, your ship moves diagonally across the screen at a tremendous rate, and the only way to keep it from hitting anything is to alter the direction of the diagonal with the space bar -it's fiendishly difficult and very, very addictive. Don't believe me? Try it for yourselves! Just goes to show that sometimes the simplest ideas are the best... Star Dodge is the code of a clever chap by the name of Graham French. Well done young Master French, twenty quid's winging its way to you as I write. AA | 
