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Now you can step into swinging London and train to be the funkiest, grooviest, most shagadelic secret agent in British Intelligence with the astounding Austin Powers personal portable computer. It's just gotta be your bag, baby!

Austin Powers: Oh Behave has to be the most smashing idea since bread was put into a slicer and sold. It would have been so easy to have thrown together a vaguely groovy platform game full of bits and bobs from the International Man of Mystery's past conquests, but this cartridge really is something else, baby. What those clever people at Tarantula have done is create the first ever portable Game Boy Color PC - the Austin Powers 2000, incorporating FAB-DOS, converts your reasonably groovy Game Boy into a fully functioning shagadelic workstation, baby!

When you slip this smashing little cartridge into your console, you're setting off down the road to being a groovy International Person of Mystery yourself. Dr. Evil is set on taking over the world, and you're the man that's going to stop him. It's not all driving around in your Shaguar meeting beautiful babes and jet setting around the world, you know! That's just 90% of it.

Exposition has given you all the groovy tools you need to do your job. Apart from the shagadelic desktop, with a large number of different funky colour schemes, patterns, sounds and screensavers, there's the shagulator (calculator) Austin's Pad V.1.10 (where you can write files, save them, print them or email them to an equally groovy chum) and the World Wide Web, chock full of useful URLs and into on the Mike Myers movies. You can also mail patterns, sounds and other gifts to friends, and check your secret agent statistics.

And that's not all - apart from being able to do loads of thngs that you can do on a PC, there's also a whole host of fun to be had in the game section too!

There of the games on offer - Mojo Maze, Rock, Paper, Scissors and Domination - are repeated in the Welcome To My Underground Lair game, but they're still groovy, baby! Best of all, though, is the extremely funky International Platform of Mystery, which proves just how much you can squeeze into a Game Boy cart - it's an entire crazy platorm adventure starring Austin himself. Here you have to work your way from the London Underground to Dr. Evil's lair, picking up groovy power-ups and fighting minions such as Fat Bastard and Random Task. This game in itself is worth buying the cart for, although on its own it would have been disappointing, man.

What can we say? Austin Powers: Oh Behave is just an absolutely crucial buy for everyone with a Game Boy! No other release before or since has pushed the Game Boy Color's capabilities to such limits. Still not impressed?

Apart from all the totally interactive groovy stuff we've mentioned, you also get smashing sound clips from the movies and even complete movie clips too! It's all too much, baby, and it'll take you decades to get tired of.

Okay, so the music could be a teensy bit more groovy, and it has to be made clear that the game's not for little kids, being more than a little naughty, but to be honest, if you're not saving up already then you're just not swinging baby, yeah!

Apart from International Platform of Mystery, there are other games to keep your Mojo working.

1. Rock, Paper, Scissors
   Take on Dr. Evil's complete board in the traditional game - you set the rules, and can play against a pal, but it's not very fair - the CPU can see your moves, man!
2. Domination
   Take on your bald-headed nemesis at this Othello-style brainteaser. You've got to surround your enemy's counters and dominate the board if you're going to win.
3. Mojo Maze
   Race Austin around in this psychedelic Pacman-style adventure, collecting medallions and upping your Mojo to travel through time foiling Dr. Evil's plans.

Transforming your Game Boy Color is certainly a novel idea! It's also a brilliant one, though - there's so much stuff here for you to play around with, you'll be busy for months!

The games are all really cool, and you can even pull up a 30-second black and white movie clip taken from the film. With over 80 backgrounds, you can't go wrong! Yeah baby!

Graphics 100%
Groooooovy!

Sound 80%
Sound as a pound, baby!

Playability 100%
It's freaking me out!

Lastability 100%
It's timeless, baby, yeah!

Overall 97%
Everyone to Austin's pad! Yeah!