At £1.20 each the programs on this cassette are not only very cheap, but also of low quality.

In all five games the object is to survive. Hence the name. From the descriptions of each of the games, they all sound phenomenal. The survival objective is, needless to say, eventually impossible. It's only really a question of how long you can stick it out. Just like life, in fact.

Opening the bill is Mazeman, a variation on the gobble up the dots theme, but a rather turgid one, and nowhere near the excellence of versions for the expanded Vic.

Bomber is the next to appear, and is almost a direct copy of a version I first saw four years ago. Fly along, shooting the tops off tall buildings, and bombing anything beneath you. Rather like a modern day Dresden or Coventry (and as pointless), but a spectacularly boring game to play. After a few minutes I didn't really care whether I survived or not, which can't be the meaning of life, or can it?

Voyager, the next time on today's menu, is another rather dull game, and again a big disappointment after the description on the label. What would you think, confronted by "Travel through an infinite universe dodging asteroids, collecting fuel, arms and supplies for your dying planet"? The game isn't that bad, but I'd been led to expect better, I felt.

Next to load up is Terminal Termite. Set in a deadly ants' nest, but it could be anywhere. There are two sentinels in each chamber, and you've only got 15 seconds per chamber. Actually it's rather tedious, but that doesn't come through so well in description.

To finish off both the cassette, and myself, comes the amazing Blast-the-aliens-one-more-time Rings of Titan. Really, I ought to be impressed by this, but I'm not. It certainly doesn't inspire me enough to say anything more.

I would have been considerably less disappointed if the public relations talk had been left off the cover. Things said to encourage you to expect great things should only be said if great things are coming. At £1.20 a game I suppose I shouldn't expect too much, but, partly because of the build up, I did.