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Shades of Carol Shaw's neat River Raid colour, this furious Amazonian roller-coaster ride for the BBC B. In it you pilot a fast, if somewhat titchy, strike plane down a ludicrously well-defended river canyon in order to decimate some nameless command centre and a nest of nasty missile silos. No easy task!

Missile launchers and popping pill boxes are bolstered by screaming enemy jets and patrol ships as you progress down the river, and it quickly turns into quite a fire-fest! As you might expect on this kind of mission, both of your fire power and fuel supplies are limited. To replenish you'll need to dock with a sister ship which (first) appears at around the 10,000 point mark. Needless to say, if you run out of ammo before cranking up that kind of score, you're in mucho trouble!

Although I began my fighter pilot career by bemoaning the limit of one plane per game I quickly forgave the oversight and become well and truly addicted. The graphics are tight and colourful, if a touch symbolic, and the sounds are great. It loads like the last night of the proms!

I'd rate this one of the toughest, tastiest take-'em-outs available for the old Beeb and consequently think it's well worth the ackers. Go give 'em hell.