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Tornado Low Level and games like it are the reason why software pundits are beginning to say that British computer games are the best in the world.

It's only a pity that great Spectrum games like TLL and countless others won't sell abroad in any vast quantities because there simply aren't vast numbers of Spectrum owners.

TLL's manufacturers are claiming "the finest graphics yet to emerge from a Spectrum". That's an overstatement - but they are extremely good.

You are at the controls of the swing wing jet fighter. Your mission is to fly low over enemy targets and take them out.

For what is basically an air-attack flight simulation, TLL is surprisingly easy to play and get into.

There are only six keys to worry about. Your jet can bank left, right, move up and down and there is one key to operate the swing wings and another to view the battle map.

The immediate scenery is viewed through a window which takes up three quarters of the screen.

Enemy targets are represented as black dots on the surface - to eliminate them you fly a low pass, being careful not to collide with the ground or any buildings.

To make just one criticism of TLL, I would have preferred to be able to shoot up the enemy installations and I felt a bit cheated that my super-fast, swing-wing jet did not have any firepower on board.

That said, let me put TLL properly in perspective - this is the best flight game for the Spectrum. I rate it even higher than Fighter Pilot and Night Gunner.