"The laser beams flash across the Spectrum screen. The universe explodes. Aliens shatter into a zillion high-resolution bits. Your Spectrum has become an Arcade Machine."

This bit of 'blurb' adorns the back cover of this book by the prodigious author, Tim Hartnell and friends. We are told that the fifty incredible arcade programs are cleanly laid-out and are easy to read and the listings are apparently compatible with all issue Spectrums, and both 16K and 48K versions. Along with the listings and playing instructions there is easy-to-understand technical information on such issues as machine code, POKEing and the use of the IN statement.

Each program has undergone exhaustive testing and has been dumped from the Spectrum directly to the printer so that errors are minimised.