This tape contains two games from Thorn EMI, soccer and snooker. The snooker game is not one of the best implementations of this sport that I have seen; however, it is not the worst either.

There are options to practice or play somebody else, though only one joystick is allowed, and fine control with this is a bit cumbersome, I found that a trackball on JS mode was a lot better, though it is a shame that the game cannot make use of the TB mode for really fine control.

Aiming and shooting is by the aim-toward-the-white-cross method, with a cycling power bar to one side of the screen. Unfortunately there is no option for spin or anythng other than a straight shot. The scoring and fouls method seems to be a bit strange as scores seem to get credited almost at random sometimes.

The action of the balls is also a bit distressing as they seem to have no inertia at all, they are either all gong at a constant speed, or they stop dead.

Not really bad, but not good enough to stand up on its own as a game in its own right.

The second game on the tape is soccer; this is the real saving grave of the product. The game is played over a scrolling screen taking up about three screen widths. The lttle men (and they are little, but this is due to the Atari's graphical limitations rather than any part of the program) run about realistically and kick the ball around with much fervour.

The control is rather different to most games of this type where all non-active players are under computer control. In this game, the players charge forward and control can be directly assigned to any of them by pressing the fire button when no player is in possession of the ball and cycling around a black square until you reach the player of your choice.

This game is very playable and is full of options for the number of players, computer opponents, number of joysticks, etc.

On the whole, the exceptionalness of this game makes up for the blandness of the snooker game and makes the whole tape much more worthwhile.