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If I were to talk of the "crafty cockney", which sport would you visualise? The only possible answer could be darts and 180 is the new darts game from Mastertronic.

You have three basic options: Practice, tournament or the two-player game. The practice game is very useful and I recommend that you play it to get a feel of the joystick movements.

You are playing against the clock and have to hit the numbers in sequence from 20 to 1. This isn't easy but is fun and can improve your aim for the competition proper to come later.

In the tournament the computer can field eight different opponents. You come into the tournament at the quarter-final stage and have to beat three opponents to win the world championship.

Your opponents all have improbable names such as Belly Bill, Limp-Wrist Larry and the World Champion is called Jammy Jim.

Each player has his individual style with favourite own doubles and finishing techniques. The instructions said that it is useful to work these out but it didn't improve my game greatly.

The choice of opponent is random and so you get a different game almost every time.

The main game is standard matchplay darts, where two players play against one another to see who can score 501 first. The winner must win on a two out of three basis - called a set.

You can aim at any part of the dartboard but you must remember that you have to finish on a double.

You aim with the joystick. When the dartboard appears, push your joystick up to set the hand in motion, all movement is by using the diagonals, and the dart is released by pressing fire.

The game contains a lot of humour and is superb value for money. If you score the magic 180, the computer will let out a digitised yell of "180!".

The graphics are nice and the movement of the hand is very smooth and this game will give the enthusiast hours of lasting enjoyment, cheaply.