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Presented in a jokey manner with a cartoon-style insert and opening page, this tape contains seven very reasonable games of the type found in many of our traditional drinking establishments.

The program begins by asking for the names of the two players and if you want to play a complete competition set of all games or separate games in practice mode.

The games are Darts, Bar Billiards, Dominoes, Table Football, Pontoon, Poker and Skittles. I will just mention here that although it is called Skittles the game presented is actually ten pin bowling, quite a different thing as real players will tell you.

Each game consists of a predetermined number of goes, for instance, in Pontoon each player has ten game against the bank, other games you play against each other. Money is the measure of your success and it is nice that the limits mean that you can only end up with a reasonable amount at the end, I find it difficult to believe in games where you end up with money in fantastic amounts.

Each game loads in separately and they are contained on the two sides of a long cassette tape, rather like the Sporting Events games, this means that there are several 4/5 minute periods when you have to wait for the next section to load. Some of the games were less interesting than others, but this comes down to personal taste. It would have been nice if you could have had the option to select those you wanted to play from the start rather than have to play them all.

I can remember a program to play Darts alone which cost about £5 so, all in all, if you enjoy this type of computer games simulation then it is good value for money.