Available exclusively from Goodman Enterprises (Tel: 0782 335650) Micro Magic is a new range of Budget Software. The idea is to bridge the gap between Shareware and fully-priced commercial software - not only on price, but quality too.

Yuck! Alien bug thingies everywhere. Quick! Shoot them and run away. Bug Hunt is the best of the bunch. You control your macho nutter with joystick and mouse. There's stuff to collect, aliens to waste, buildings to explore, captives to rescue and lots of loud noises to make.

There's a set number of captives to rescue on each level - your first task is finding a decent gun and a pile of ammo. The graphics are nothing special but the gameplay's lovely. £3.95. STF Rating: 80%

Put away those anoraks - it's not a simulation of train timetable management. Train Set is an infuriating and devilish puzzle game. You have four colours blob-type trains to control and each has to collect its own colour mailbags.

You can control each train's speed and direction, and the junctions. Sounds simple? It soon gets frantic as trains seem intent on collision courses. You need to be quick with the mouse and plan ahead. Once you get into it, its addictiveness shows. If you like hectic puzzle games you'll get off on this. £3.95. STF Rating: 78%

The thirteen treasures of Arthurian Britain are lost and, well, you know the story - one brave soul saves the day again. Ynis Witrin is a fairly simple RPG, with magic items and a life force to keep healthy.

The graphics are excellent, detailed and atmospheric. Pity it's so easy to die - might take you a while to get into it and start learning where the important objects are. First stop has to be a good weapon and some healing potions. £4.95. STF Rating: 65%

Not a chess game but a chess database. You can replay over 500 famous matches from the grandmasters of chess. The games unfold before you on a chessboard, as well as in standard chess notation.

You can view them rather like a tape recorder - forward and backward, starting at any point. Games can be edited and new ones added. If you're a chess nut with a head for all this, then it's bound to be right up your street. £4.95. STF Rating: 62%

Guide an overweight professor around flip-screen platforms collecting bits. Controlling the main sprite is crude and moving it about is slow. The graphics are colourful, but the gameplay very ordinary. One for the younger STer. £3.95. STF Rating: 52%

One-hundred-and-... Oh no, hang on, if you look closely it's just over the wire. Unlucky, mate. Magic Darts is a straightforward game of darts. Use the joystick to select your target, a blue bar bounces up and down giving you the strength of the throw and a little arrow floats around giving you the drift.

It's very easy, but takes time to perfect. Dull, though well presented.

Easy Money is a fruit machine simulator... except it isn't. Here you end up watching the fruit, bells and bars whizz round and nudging them. Deadly dull again, though beautifully presented dullness. £3.95. STF Rating: 50%