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Yowser McTowser! Turrican II originally got a whopping 95% when first reviewed, and you dudes out there in readerland voted it Full-Price Game Of The Year in our readers' poll.

It's been out on a number of compilations, and now you can pick it up for only £3.99. What do you get for your money? You get five massive (and we mean massive) levels of shoot-'em-up action. Massive? How many screens are there then? Erm, 1,500. No, that's not a misprint: there are one thousand five hundred screens in this game. Phew!

You play Commander John Turrican, you're tooled up with three different weapons (an ordinary blaster, a big laser-stick kind of thing, and some smart bombs). It's firepower city, with buckets of different bad guys and a whole wide world to explore.

It's not all running and jumping, mind. Level two sees you at the controls of a spaceship, a la R-Type.

What else can we say about this game? It's big, the graphics are breathtaking, and you can't keep away from it. Some of you out there will have had your gaming appetites whetted by the AA73 covertape demo, but Mr. Piggy Bank wouldn't let you get the game proper. Well, now you can.

Steal your mates' dinner money, hold up a bank, kill to own this game...