Overtaker provides you with a large racing car on a straight track where, against a constantly decreenting clock, you seek to press on with piling up the points, which accrue only so long as you avoid a collisions with an indeterminate number of smaller cars that keep coming up in your path.

If you do hit one, everything but the clock stops and you lose time. You can boost the speed as your skill increases and there's no fuzz on this road!

Brands Hatch provides an on-screen replication of the famous circuit and a timer, but any resemblance to actual motor racing ends there. You control, by means of two keys, the direction of a fast-moving pawn which rotates about its vertical axis in a most disconcerting way.

At various points on the track its progress is impeded by groups of parked fellow pawns, which never happens, even at Monza!

But if you can forget about cars and treat the game as simply a difficult piece of manoeuvring, it becomes quite a challenge and is certainly fast enough - because it is Forth - for anyone.

G.M.