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Following on after Wimbledon, I suppose it is inevitable that a glut of tennis games should appear. Superbrat is the latest budget offering from Atlantis. It is not, I am afraid, very good.

To start with, you can only move your man up and down the baseline. Keyboard response is dreadfully slow and you have great difficulty getting to the ball in time. At least I think you do. The graphics are not particularly clear, and you have considerable trouble in picking up the path of the ball. If you do get to the ball in time, you press the "P" key to hit the ball, releasing the key quickly to hit the ball to the left and slowly to hit it to the right.

To be honest, the game is totally unplayable and you would have much more fun playing Pong. If you want a tennis game for your Spectrum, then save up and buy a copy of Psion's Match Point, which is excellent.

On the cassette inlay, Atlantis describe Superbrat as the most authentic tennis game available for the Spectrum. They cannot be serious. This is the pits.