Arcade City! Three of the greatest arcades ever built - Afterburner, Wec Le Mans and Double Dragon - have joined forces with the System 3 original Last Ninja II and explode onto your screen. Together they bring shoot-'em-ups, beat-'em-ups, arcade adventure and high speed racing - all a person could ask for in fact to cure those post 'pud blues.

The star of the show is Afterburner, not a graphic delight but a real stick-waggling, trigger-wrenching game of shoot the Ruskies. You fly a state-of-the art US fighter plane on a mission over various terrains, blowing things away with guns and missiles. WEC is no slouch either, this time putting you behind the controls of a sports car in the famous French endurance race, it's very fast and exceptionally pretty.

AA never reviewed Last Ninja II but it received massive public acclaim and sold in its thousands. A black and white arcade adventure, you control this last nutter as he strolls around beating folks up and collecting apparently useful objects. Double Dragon at last makes it onto the CPC and you'll soon see why we had to wait. The graphics are excellent but the game moves with all the pace of an arthritic slug. A decent filler but little else, and not a patch on its arcade parent.

A great compilation that brings you a new game and three established hits; there's enough variety here to keep any gamesplayer quiet for weeks.

Unfortunately, Ocean spoils its compilation record once again by only releasing the package on tape, which will no doubt deter many disk-based customers.