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Another screenshot please!  Though I fully expect to still not know it.

Not only am I an anglocentric xenophobe, I'm an anglocentric xenophobe with no idea what game this is.  In fact if it weren't for the fact that the text "Alien Spacecraft" is there, I would have hazarded a guess at some kind of deep sea marine biology simulator!!

So what do I do now? Pick a new picture for someone to guess?

Yes!  But please, not another Polish game

I know I'm going to kick myself when I see what this is, but I just can't think of it.

The demo is interactive, you access several demo rooms by manoeuvreing a winged lion

Now weirdly that does ring a bell.  But I still can't think of the game despite it presumably ending in "eless"!  (Which makes me useless, I guess.)

Ah, I remember the 16-bit demo scene...

But I don't particularly remember that one!

[EXACTLY]

like Chopper X?

EXACTLY like Chopper X!

Adeel is closest so far. 

It has a different word for Helicopter in the title, and then a letter.

police quest in sim city?

You're SOOOOO close.  The only words that aren't actually in the game's title are "sim", "quest, "city, "police" and "in".

Wow I couldn't remember the music but it sure brought back memories when I found it on YouTube.  Needless to say the ST version was pretty painful on the ears... ST chip music tended to be!   This remix is nice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAHLujwJfQg  (Well thanks Absauber, I've just listened to this twice in a row and about to hit play when it ends again... aurgh!!)

Okay, so... what next?  Okay, here's a game... admittedly not a particularly good one, though not a terrible one either... that I got bundled with my first ST back in the eighties.  Cropped as the game features its name in the side status display!

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[Galax]

Wait!  I should be in bed, but I think this was Galax or maybe 3D Galax!!

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I know that one!  I had it on the Atari ST.  I'm pretty sure it began with Z... Zaxon?  No I don't think that was it.... nnnngggggggggggggggggg this is going to drive me mad.  Wasn't Zarch, that was the Archimedes title for Virus (well, the other way round actually).

Gah... thank you Anstauber for melting my brain, this is going to drive me mental and I'll remember the name in my sleep only to find someone else got it before I log on again.

[Terminus]

Is the one word title: Terminus: The Prison Planet ?

Hey, I only ever thought of the game as Terminus!! Anyway, that's the one.

I fear I may have gone a step too far into obscurity with this one?!  This game had a one-word title.

Okay, here's another Speccy one... a bit obscure maybe, I think I had it on a cover tape in the mid 80s!

[imgzoom]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/OybPQH_ibov_F98Jn3Tv6jBqQRJmR09VJ034v-7JTNOR=w320-h240-no[/imgzoom]

Gotta love those colours... 

That's gotta either be The Great Escape or Where Time Stood Still, both by Denton Designs and released by Ocean Software if my memory is correct.  Judging by what appears to maybe be the door to a building, I'll go for The Great Escape.

Douglas! 

(As opposed to a man with a shovel in his head, who is called Doug. )

Oh dear.  Shades of "what do you call a man without a shovel in his head?" there! 

A horse?

So... your go, LimpingFish.