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When I played Combat School against Marillion's keyboard player at the Family Leisure Centre in Old Compton Street - oh sorry, didn't I tell you, Mark Kelly and I had a great old time of it playing the Konami game.

Not that I'm one to drop names of anything but I certainly did get an idea of just how tough a game Combat School is when I came up against the Marillion pop star.

Even one is the Assault Course which is definitely the joystick buster of the year. It's a waggler. You know the routine - shake the thing like crazy to make your soldier leg across the screen - over walls, swinging from bar to bar, and then making a mad dash for the finishing line as the clock ticks away.

The Rifle Range is where things start to get really tough - in fact, when I played the game against Mark Kelly, who as I may have explained earlier is Marillion's keyboard player, I ran into considerable grief.

The Arm Wrestling event is a bit of a non-event really.

The Iron Man Race is your second assault course, and much tougher. It too requires you to cross rivers with the aid of a canoe.

If you fork out for Combat School you are guaranteed several hours of fun. Possibly the best coin-op conversion of the year and an extremely deserving C&VG Hit.