Things have been a little quiet on the games front at Elite recently, no doubt gearing up for the Christmas blitz.

But the Walsall boys have found time to put out three excellent compilation tapes for not an excessive amount of dosh.

The Trio Hit Pack - Trio sounds a bit like a chocolate bar to me - is available across the three main formats with most of the games common to each. This is what you get: Spectrum and Amstrad - Great Gurianos, Airwolf II and 3DC. Commodore 64: Great Gurianos, Airwolf II and Cataball.

Great Gurianos is the old Taito coin op game and for me it's the best of the bunch. Hack and slash with nice big cartoon graphics.

I'm much too young to remember Elite's original Airwolf game based on the adventures of TV helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke (what a dumb name). 3DC is a 3D arcade adventure set underwater, in which a diver must reconstruct a submarine while fighting off deep sea nasties.

Cataball is a bit odd. You control four bounding balls, which move in a wave-like motion, against a series of backdrops in an effort to collect balloons. Strange, but playable.

Great Gurianos gets my top vote but when you add three other good playable games, it becomes a must purchase.