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If the spaceship in Parker's latest VCS cartridge was called the Star Blaster and the planet called Xenon 12, I would have already dismissed the game as garbage in my first sentence.

As it is, it's the Millennium Falcon and Darth Vader's famous Death Star that are the subjects of this third "Star Wars" game.

The fact that the games are based on the most exciting space adventure films of all time tends to make you treat them with a reverence they don't always deserve.

OK, so the Empire Strikes Back was a reasonably good game, but does it really rank on its own merits with the likes of Pitfall, Ms. Pac-Man or Centipede?

I say no - and this latest offering, Return Of The Jedi Death Star Battle, is no better.

You fly the Falcon with your joystick buzzing around zapping the Interceptors.

Every so often, a gap will appear in the Death Star's forcefield enabling you to dart through and hyperspace to the same sector.

If you are intent on having a complete Star Wars set, this one is in the shops now at £29.95.

Proof that basing a game on a successful film is no guarantee of a good cartridge.