Two games for the price of one! What ho, chaps, this must be a bargain.

Hmmm... on one side is a rather uninspiring version of Breakout. Just in case you are utterly clueless, I should point out that in this ancient game you knock a ball about the screen, knocking bricks out of a wall. Here the wall steadily moves down the screen towards you so you must knock out the bricks pronto.

Sounds good? Looks terrible. Imagine a yellow ball on a green background - ugh! Still, there are five skill levels and the fastest is fairly nippy. Only trouble is trying to see the ball...

On the other side of the tape is a 'real-time graphic adventure'. This means a little animated figure who wanders from room to room, gathering experience points and little graphic shapes - I mean treasure - in the Dungeons and Dragons style. Every so often he engages in motionless battle with a nasty goblin, dwarf or ogre.

You can be a merchant, a magician, or a warrior in your travels and may use a variety of weapons and spells against your enemies. The combat sequences consist of brief reports flashed on to the screen - "The lizard-man takes a swipe at your head" variety. This game is pretty patchy on graphics and pretty low on excitement.

The idea of the game is to collect three magic rings and return to your starting point. As a special reward, you will be made ruler of the Middle Kingdom.

One of the drawbacks with tapes offering more than one game is that the programs tend to be of rather less-than-average quality. Middle Kingdom/Breakout is, alas, no exception.