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They're tough, they're fast and they wear clothes that make Crockett and Tubbs look like they shop at Mister Byrite. They're Tony Gibson and Raymond Brody, two streetwise supercops from New York with a love of sports cars.

They're both assigned to Chase Special Investigation Headquarters, a division of the NYPD that specialises in all manner of car-related felonies, from jaywalkers and joyriders to escaping convicts and drug-crazed serial killers.

Armed with the division's pride and joy, the Porsche TA-2000 (a state-of-the-art armoured sports car), Gibson and Brody earn their wages by indulging in high-speed car chases with all manner of law-breaking speed freaks with the objective of bringing them to justice - by fair means or foul.

With a coin-op as beefy as Chase HQ, the programmers could have made the mistake of trying to emulate exactly the look of the original, thus producing something that's superficially coin-op perfect but subsequently gets overtaken by milk floats and BMXs.

Fortunately though, Pete Hickinson and Bill Caunt made playability top priority, and the result is a conversion that, while noticeably slower, feels and plays uncannily like the coin-op, right down to the criminal car-crunching.

There are plenty of nice touches, like the squeal of tyres that accompanies a gear change, the high-pitched hiss of the turbo injector and the blaring siren that comes into action when the crook is sighted. And of course a generous helping of sampled dialogue as supplied by Nancy and your partner.

An impressive selection of the coin-op's music during the attract and introductory sequence gets the pulse racing, but unfortunately there's nothing so impressive during the game - the original Miami Vice-style music has been replaced by a slower piece that plods along in stark contrast to the high speed action.

But that's only a minor quibble - capturing the thrills of the original is what counts, and Ocean's conversion has done that admirably.