Zip through 16 mine caverns rescuing trapped miners while avoiding rogue mining droids. Blocking your way are hazards such as force fields, rock walls, and large boulders smack in the middle of a cavern forcing you into an almost impossible situation involving large spiky rocks sticking out from the top and bottom of the screens on most levels (Fer-yew).

Subterranea has some pretty graphics and is fun to play but it gets too dull too quickly. If you're too tight to fork out for I.O., buy Subterranea for a little taste of what you're missing.

Trailblazer is a whizzo 3D race game, previously released by Gremlin. Your ball hurtles down the on-coming track at breakneck speeds, and has to negotiate a chequered pattern of different coloured squares, each colour with a different trait. Blue squares bounce you into the air, purple throw you backwards, cyan reverse your controls, green speed you up, and red slow you down. If you have a chum handy, why not play with him or her (Oo-er)? Stacks of playability in this crucial re-release. Don't miss it.

Fight Night features some pretty cartoon-style characters as you battle your way to becoming champeen. As well as the normal fight option you can build your own boxer from bits of the resident fighters already on tape.

You can then have them training on a punch bag or have two of your own boxers sparring against each other. The majority of bash 'em up games feature a dazzling array of moves, but Fight Night earns top marks for simplicity with only a few punches and fakes. A year ago, Fight Night was pretty popular for a tenner and at two quid is well worth buying.

Ever fancied flying a Lancaster bomber? Not to mention navigating, engineering, and gunning? Well, you have to do all of these in Dambusters. You must have heard of the famous bouncing bomb? You haven't?

Well, pay more attention in history. What it boils down to is that you have to blow up a dam with a special bomb that bounces on water.

Dambusters lacks variety as the only mission is the dam run. If you are into simulators this deserves a look. Otherwise, steer well clear.

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Get this: a hideously unstable planet has just popped out of a black hole and is in danger of imploding. If it does implode, it will cause the whole universe to top itself in a cataclysmic starquake (Oo-er).

A little guy called BLOB has been selected by default (everyone else had accidentally pranged their spacecraft) to journey to the centre of the planet to rebuild its core with bits of old junk. Armed with only his trusty laser, a shield and a limited supply of DIY platforms he goes forth.

This ace arcade adventure has to contend for cheapo of the month. It's totally spondiscous, know what I mean?

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Aye, it be many a moon since I first laid my eye on this one. I didn't care much for it then, and I don't care much for it now.

You control five little robots on board a ship which has been taken over by the hideous Zimen. In a desperate race against time your robots have to free the ship's crew before their energy runs out.

There are 230 stunningly repetitive locations in which has to be the worst choice for a re-release in ages. Avoid this like you would avoid... well, something bad.