Family Favourites, Minerva's latest offering, consists of three impressive and modernised versions of - as the title suggests - old favourites. The first is Braindrain, a matching pairs game, which shows a screenful of cards that you turn over, two at a time, in the hope of finding matching pairs.

As it is essentially a memory game, normally you would have no chance against the computer, who could remember everything if it tried. However, this time, the brothers Pardesi have come up with the answer - give the computer a limited memory. Before each of its turns, a bar at the top of the screen shows how much memory, or Braindrain, the computer needs to find a pair. If the bar scrolls fully, the chances are that the computer will resort to guessing for the first and, if necessary, the second card it picks. This means it is perfectly possible - though not easy - to beat the computer.

Apart from this innovation, the game itself is fun and the impressive graphics combine with the sampled sounds to give a highly professional effect. There are three levels of play: Easy, Medium and Hard. This is also one of the few games I have seen on the Arc that is easy enough to keep a young child occupied.

The second game, dEADeND, is a new version of Snakey. You whizz around the screen, drawing a line as you go, as does the computer. However, should you crash into yourself, your opponent or the sides, you lose a life: the object being to manipulate your opponent, the computer, into crashing before you do. After that there is a solo round, where you must guide yourself round a grid of numbers to "type" in a code, displayed at the top of the screen. If you fail here, however, you do not lose a life but instead return to the original game.

The third, and possibly the least well implemented, is Gridlock. As its name does not suggest, it is essentially Reversi. Although there is no two-player option, there are two levels of play, High and Low. This still have good graphics and sound, but its misleading name may lead to disappointment if you were expecting something new.

In general, these games are well presented and playable versions of familiar themes. Generally impressive, and with three games on the disc, this represents pretty fair value for money.