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Put yourself in Prince Agar's position, if your worst enemy, the Baron, had kidnapped your future wife you might be a little miffed, peeved even, so it's off across the country to rescue the fair maiden and give that Baron a stern talking to.

Thus begins your quest in Impressions' latest offering. Chariots Of Wrath is based around six different sub-games; a shooting gallery style blast the beasties as they appear game, an Arkanoid clone, an Asteroids clone, two vertically scrolling shooters and an infuriating platform jumper.

The shooting gallery is set in a dungeon corridor ending in a T-junction at which you stand and monsters can appear on either side of you or in the two doorways further down the corridor. It's just a matter of gunning them down as quickly as possible then on to the next sub-game.

The Arkanoid clone has you breaking through the castle battlements with the usual variety of extra power pods dropping from the broken bricks until you have cleared a screen's worth.

The scrolling shoot-'em-ups are very similar to each other with some smooth parallax scrolling, some wholesomely destructive extra weapons and large end-of-level guardians. The second one goes on far too long but they are otherwise on the game's best features.

Rock dodging in your spaceship is a competent Asteroids clone and as such is entertaining in its own small (very small) way, which leaves only the platform sub-game.

A package of six games in one has to be worth a look from even the most jaded gamer and the overall quality of those in Chariots Of Wrath is good though not exceptional. A good buy if your software collection or budget is a little on the small side but you would be hard put to find an ST owner without comparable games somewhere in their collection.