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This game - a fast action shoot-'em-up with excellent graphics - caused quite a stir when it was originally released. Since then though, we've seen some pretty darn good games in that genre, so can this compete with the best today?

Two players can take part, each taking the role of a macho dude with big guns and an even bigger ego. The plot is pointless - there are hundreds of enemies poisted to turn you into dog meat and you've got to kill them. There are four horizontally-scrolling levels, each based on a different theme, and there is the obligatory massive end-of-level monster. Halfway through each level you can visit the shop to buy extra weaponry using the coins you've picked up from the vapourised baddies.

Graphics are excellent. The sprites are fairly large and well animated and some of the backgrounds are superb. However, the control method lets the game down. To change your direction of fire, you must hold down the Fire button and move the joystick. This means you can't move left while firing right because you just spin round and face the other way - it's extremely confusing.

So an otherwise excellent game is ruined by that one fault - unless you have enough patience to practise. With that proviso, Forgotten Worlds isn't half bad, particularly for the asking price.