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.