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Go For Gold must be the billionth sports simulation to hop, skip and jump into the C&VG offices this month.

This game has six events: Springboard Diving, 100 Metre Sprint, 110 Hurdles, Archery, Long Jump and Weight Lifting.

It's out onto the diving board, then, for an energetic bout of air-to-sea flight. You can choose which sort of dive is most suited to your own particular abilities. According to the instructions, the judges in this event are pretty useless, and you can achieve a good score by other methods than merely a good dive...

Next up is the 100 Metre Sprint. This event is pretty straightforward, as all you have to do is bach the joystick left and right faster than your opponent in order to win.

110 Hurdles is next on the disc, and is great fun! It's 100 sprint all over again, except it's ten metres longer, and there are large wooden things in the middle of the track which you must jump over. Movement is left and right with the joystick, and up and right at the same time to jump a hurdle. It is possible to run straight through the obstacles - providing you have the strength to keep up momentum.

Archery comes next, and jolly interesting it is too! You are given a view down your own arm, and through the sight of the bow. You must draw back the arrow, and endeavour to hold it steady while the wind gives you no end of trouble. You are lined up against a handful of targets at varying distances, and must release your arrow at exactly the right moment.

The penultimate event is the Long Jump, in which your little character must run hell-for-leather down a cinder track, before hurling himself into the air. More left right, left right movement in this event.

Finally comes the weightlifting. You have to take a few pauses here, while the 25kg (at the beginning) weight sways around in your hands.

Go For Gold is quite a nice version of the tried and tested "sports" simulations.