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Oh deary me, looks like I've been lumbered with keeping the world free of international terrorism yet again, this time in the form of Navy Moves from The Hit Squad.

It seems that a bunch of Middle-Eastern extremists (I thought that was the only sort) have stolen a submarine and are now bent on certain nefarious porpoises (sorry, purposes). What these are is never quite clear but they must be pretty nefarious indeed because you are being set loose on them.

Equipped with a trusty rubber dinghy and a small gun, you set off to find the sub by jumping over mines and avoiding bad guys who have much bigger guns. Should you manage to get through this without throwing your joystick out of a window or dancing a merry jig on the game, you're doing well!

If, and I do mean if, you manage to get to the sub, the object is to run around shooting female terrorists, officer types and collecting extra ammo and codes to enter into terminals dotted around the place.

When entered in the correct order these codes will detonate charges placed on board, destroying the submarine. End of game.

We first reviewed Navy Moves way back in 1989: then the graphics and sound were pretty good but there were serious doubts about the gameplay, and as a result it scored 62%.

Three years on, the graphics are now only average and the ridiculously hard mine-hopping section is a pain. Only buy this game if you have no more hair to pull out.