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This is more than slightly past its sell-by date, isn't it? Well over five years ago, Harrier Attack burst onto Spectrum screens across the nation and met with howls of adulation.

As pilot of a Harrier jump jet, the player must run the gauntlet of a barrage of enemy gunfire from land, sea and air, to reach the friendly aircraft carrier on the other side of the country.

What made Harrier Attack so successful in its day was its deceptively simple gameplay, plus the fact that there weren't that many games around at the time. Fortunately, time waits for no tin of peas, and looking at the game in 1989, it's very disappointing. Awful, juddery scrolling, titchy user-defined graphics, dodgy sound effects and lousy playability may have been acceptable back in the early Eighties, but now? Take it away please.

A complete and utter pile of tosh. Horrible, garish colours, juddery scrolling and ghastly gameplay combine to product a game guaranteed to leave you and your C64 feeling very ill indeed.

This crumbly old title has aged badly. Its simplistic gameplay, utterly dire graphics and appalling sound effects make it one to avoid at all costs.