This ain't really nothing to write home about. Whilst it is a fairly well implemented computer version of the silly sport in question, non-tennis fans are unlikely to have the patience required.

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Basically, it's going to take a lot of practice, using the serving machine, before you start being able to hit the ball back on any but the flukiest of occasions.

Still, serving is quite easy to pick up and the two-player option adds to the appeal (you stand more chance of beating a human opponent, for a start!). Graphics are not too bad, and the avid tennis player will love it. But frankly, the avid tennis player should be down the park playing tennis. Passable.

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Anyone who can criticise Continental Circus can't have played it. It's still the best motor racing game available on the CPC, Burning Rubber included. You're the driver of the yellow car. Well, actually all the cars are yellow. You're the driver of the yellow car in the middle of the screen.

You compete on eight different tracks around the world, trying to finish progressively higher up the rankings. Haring round a corner at 402mph, cutting in between two opponents' cars, it seems faster than any other racing game around.

If you don't own a copy, you darned well should. (It's available for £2.99 on the Mastertronic label, by the way.)

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When judgement day comes, and the time arrives for some great celestial Jimmy Hill to compile the definitive histories of football and computer games. Paul "Gazza" Gascoigne will be remembered as a grinning Geordie with a sickening wealth of talent. Gazza's Super Soccer, on the other hand, will be remembered for very little.

For a start, it's nigh on impossible to control the ball. The game plays like Gazza himself, immediately after the broken leg. The screen view changes from a side-view of the pitch to a view of the goalmouth, depending on which third of the field you are in (which only adds to the confusion). The graphics are pretty dire, with animation straight out of very early Charlie Chaplin films. A league option might add a bit of long term appeal, but at the end of the day (Brian), Super Soccer is virtually unplayable. File under Plague, Avoid like the.

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Like Continental Circus, this recently came out as a budget game. It's a golf game, but even if you can't stand golf, you'll probably enjoy this. Unlike other sport sims, which might require some aptitude for the sport concerned and heavy concentration, World Class Leaderboard is a relaxing kind of a game, that relies more on brains then brawn.

A very patchy pot pourri of the good, the bad and Paul Gascoigne.

Whether two decent games a compilation makes is arguable. The fact that both the decent games are available at budget prices cases a bit of a shadow over Grandstand. But then, if you're mad on tennis, or mad to the point of being institutionalised on football, maybe you'll be hot-footing it down to WH Smiths anyway.

The sporting theme makes the compilation hang together quite well, and it offers a wide variety of game styles. Gazza is completely terrible, but I reckon Pro Tennis Tour is quite good. The other two are excellent.