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Two-player games seem to have gone out of fashion recently. In the Atari VCS's heyday, almost every other cartridge Atari released for the machine needed two people to play it. But games on computers have always tended to have a sole player pitted against the computer in inter-planetary war or gobbling-ghost contests. Chariot Race for the Vic 20 provides a refreshing change by letting you and mate try to kill each other!

The game is set in a suitably barbaric era - the height of the Roman Empire - and is, as the title suggests, the Indy 500 with horses and carts.

The aim of the game is to avoid running into the back of other chariots and to try to push your opponents into the walls of the arena and crush them under the horses's hooves.

The graphics are good and shame many of the games on the Vic's big brother the C64. I can recommend Chariot Race to anyone - well good Vic games are few and far between.

Chariot Race is available by mail order from Micro Antics or high street retailers for an asking price of £6.95.