Life goes on doesn't it? Past disasters like earthquakes, tornadoes and the new Atlantis 4 Game Pack. The feeble four on offer here are Superkid, Spooky Castle, Crossfire and Crack Up, which were all previously available as separate budget titles.

Superkid is young Tom Essex after he drinks some Liquid X and finds that he has the strength of twenty toddlers and can now fly. Bored with his diet of rusks, he vows to battle crime wherever it raises it's ugly sawn-off shotgun, which basically involves saving stranded women and escorting old ladies home. All this may not sound too exciting and it's not - if you can stay awake through the game and can be bothered to get up, up and away.

Spooky Castle deserves awards for it's unoriginal plot, feeble graphics and awful sound, the latter consisting of about four beeps. If this puts you off then good, because the rest is worse. To start with it is just soooo frustrating, mainly due to the frequent deaths caused by a ghost that whizzes out just as you re about to complete the screen.

I thought this game was very difficult but I soon found out why - the whole game consists of about 20 screens and I completed it in about half an hour!

If you thought that Spooky Castle was the worst game on this pack, then wait because Crossfire is even worse. It's an Operation Wolf clone in which you must wipe out the mobsters of Chicago. There is a total lack of violent action, due to the graphics (the baddies look as menacing as poodles) and sound (just bleeps for dead baddies and bloops for dead innocents) What seals it's doom is that there is no variation at all, with only two enemies who just sit there so that you can shoot them!

Crack-Up is a breakout variant with the usual multitude of power up capsules to liven it up, including lasers, bat extensions and extra lives. It's all been done before but this is a competent clone all the same and it does has a certain addictiveness about it. However, one good game can't save a pack.

I think it's obvious what the final conclusion is - two absolutely appalling games, one very boring game and one quite good game. This is one pack you should leave on the shelf for some other sucker to buy.

This Atlantis pack is one of the worst budget compilations I've seen in ages. If you've got a brain, you'll avoid this package like the plague.