Oh, thing brings back some memories. Even the loading screen is a 'classic'. If you owned a Commodore 64 and bought any US Gold game in the early '80s then you'll remember the old Stars and Stripes loader with its accompaniment of patriotic American music. Fortunately it only lasts about 15 seconds, so your ears escape lightly.

The three games contained within are all classics hiding under plastic surgery. Rebound is basically Arkanoid with a twist (literally, the screen is on its side). A nice feature here is the screen editor, allowing you to make your own completely impossible screens to add to the completely impossible ones already included.

Gridrunner is exactly that. Whaddya mean you're too young? All right, Gridrunner is an old Jeff Minter 'classic' (Jeff Minter? You know, hippy, long-haired, llama enthusiast?), involving a grid, a sultry female voice, bad guys that move along the grid lines and you. Sounds great, doesn't it (no)? Go buy it today (or stay at home and put the telly on)!

Invaders will be instantly recognisable to anyone that ever played The Empire Strikes Back on the Atari VCS (now that's old). Distinctly Defender-looking, you have a base at one end of the level and five huge enemy muthers advancing on it from the other. Your job is to stop them. That's it. Shoot them, kill them, make them crash, knock 'em outta the sky, turn 'em into balls of fire, blast 'em to smithereens (I've heard it's quite nice there at this time of year). You get the idea.

As a compilation it's pretty good, the games are varied enough to suit most tastes (as long as you're info bat 'n' ball games or shoot-'em-ups) and let's face it, any Jeff Minter game is usually good for a laugh (or two).