This game  Armageddon Man for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer, is based in 2032 and you are controlling an enormous network of spy and laser defence satellites capable of monitoring, influencing and controlling the political, economic and military events of the world.

With 16 superpowers with nuclear capacity, do you have the skills to avoid global devastation?

To help you in your task you have five primary resources. An information window lets you access the figures on food, technology and nuclear capability. This last area presents particular problems, as you try to work out whether it's safe to agree to a country's request to increase its allowance of warheads.

Backing up this data are the waves of communications that flood into your letter rack. Often these will flash onto the screen, interrupting whatever you're doing, but others may pile up in the tray, and vital information could be lost if you don't get to them in time.

However, it's not all reading, and your mail is made easier by the use of certain standard communiques, ranging from the congratulatory to the sharp slap on the wrists.

Of course, there are times when the pen isn't mightier than the sword, so the UNN provides you with a peacekeeping force, which can be ordered anywhere in the world to put the squeeze on a potential aggressor, though it will take a week to get there. But you won't be top man for long if you garrison the troops in somebody's backyard for months on end!

Supplied in oversized box, on cassette, with instructions, full colour map of the world and two sheets of vinyl re-usable flags.

In very good condition - some folding to inner contents