Kixx are going great guns their budget compilations, and here's the fifth in series, starring three games which were all hits in their times.

Monty On The Run stars everyone's favourite coal-pinching mole in the sequel to the Miners' Strike propaganda laff, Wanted - Monty Mole. Monty has been nicked and locked away in Scudmore Prison. You control him as he makes his daring break for freedom in one of the best selling games of the last decade. Monty must reach the English Channel and jump ferry before he's caught by the fuzz (Gumph!). Collect gold coins which are lying around and pick items needed by Monty to assist him in his escape.

Monty On The Run is looking fairly rough around the edges these days, but there's still that spark which put the game at the top of the chart all that time ago. Lots of you are probably too young to have bought Monty On The Run first time around, so don't miss out on the chance to get it now.

Jack The Nipper II - In Coconut Capers is another reason to splash out immediately on Multimixx 5, simply because it's so cute! Naughty Jack a his long-suffering family have been thrown out of the country. However while flying over a jungle the nipper leaps out of the plane, using his nappy as a parachute for a safe landing. Once he's got his feet on firm ground, Jack begins his quest to bring naughtiness to the natives in a brilliant platform adventure.

Graphically it's gorgeous - brilliant sprites showing all the characters with big soppy eyes - apart from Jack of course, looks as wicked as you'd expect him to be! Loads of colour is splashed around the playing area and the sound is quite jolly too, but the fact is you can find yourself lost in naughtiness of the highest order, and that's why Jack The Nipper II - in Coconut Capers is such a hoot.

The last of the batch. Auf Weidersehen Monty, is the third episode in the Monty Mole saga. Monty has found his way to Europe and is desperate to buy the island of Montos - an island so far out of the way that no-one knows of its existence, allowing our garden-destroying chum to live out his days without fear of extradition. What this basically boils down to is a platform romp across most of the countries that make up Europe, with short dodge-the-baddies-in-planes sequences when you're flying from one country to the next.

Auf Weidersehen Monty is by no means a bad game, but there's no real difference, either in terms of presentation or gameplay (except for the flight sequences and they're hardly heart-stopping) between this and Monty On The Run.

At the of the day, anyone with half a brain will buy Multimixx 5, for two reasons; the first is that there are three solid platform games here, and at the price being asked the the package is a bargain. Secondly, it's a fond look back in time to the days when the Speccy ruled supreme - and certainly when a coal-stealing mole was better-known than a short plumber with a silly moustache.

Label: Kixx Memory: 48K/128K Price: £3.99 Tape Reviewer: Paul Rand

Ah, the nostalgia of it all! Three one-time smashes on one tape for the same price as one budget game has to rank as excellent value for money!