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Monaco comes packaged in a professional plastic wallet with adequate instructions. It's an impressive piece of software that makes good use of the sound and graphics capability of the machine.

The theme is hardly original, but don't let that put you off. This is the classic arcade game in which you steer your car along the track (which scrolls downwards) and try to avoid the other suicidal grand-prix drivers.

There are even ambulances, with sirens wailing, hurtling past you. After several races you feel you need one!

The race track features a tricky chicane, slippery oil patches and gets narrower as the race progresses.

The car responds very smoothly to the controls which allow you to steer left and right and accelerate. Braking is achieved by not accelerating.

The score for the previous 100 games (yes, one hundred!) races are kept, though only the four nearest you are shown, together with the highest score and your ranking in the 100.

The instructions state that the game is for the over-11 age group, but I know of at least one five year old who would disagree.

J.P.