In this pack of games you'll find five altogether, Hangman, Moonlander, Roadrace, Substrike, and 30 Link.

Hangman: takes very little explanation as the very name is so well-known. This is a version of the game played in classrooms for centuries in which you have to guess a word letter by letter and for each letter you guess incorrectly a piece of hangman's scaffolding is erected, until a man is hanged limb by limb.

Hangman is still as popular as the day it was first played and now there are numerous computerised versions. In this one the computer puts a row of dashes on the screen and you have to enter the appropriate letter via the keyboard. If you don't get the right letters the computer draws a bit more until you are finally hanged.

Moonlander: Another self-explanatory game title. But if you haven't guessed what you have to do here it is. You must land a small space ship in the centre of a crater on a planet. The craft's height is displayed on the left hand side of the screen and the fuel on the right. There is a continual read-out shown at the foot of the screen giving you information about your flight path in velocity against fuel.

All you must do is fire the retro's to slow the ship down using the relevant keys as directed in the instructions. If you give too much retro the ship will run out of fuel. Too little, and the ship will move far too quickly and smash into the surface of the planet. With practice you'll soon learn what the correct balance between retro, velocity and fuel is and you'll be able to land the craft safely.

This must surely be one of the oldest computer games around but has a strong following of fans today.

Roadracer: This is a straight version of another old favourite with computer games programmers. You control a car taking part in a car rally. The car has to be manoeuvred along the roadway which involves some nifty steering wheel work in order to successfully negotiate some hazardous bends, never mind the logs piled up intermittently along the road. If you hit too many trees or drive off the road your car crashes and whoops, you're dead.

Substrike: Now you take the role of an aircraft carrier which is fleeing a fleet of enemy submarines. As the commander of the carrier you must drop depth charges at what you judge to be suitable moments to go off when a submarine is passing. You only have two minutes in which to destroy as many submarines as possible.

To sum up the entire tape of games, I think it was commendable of Tansoft to compile this quality of games on one tape. Usually a compendium of games put together on one cassette are not of very good quality, although you get more for your money, but now that there is a lot of Oric software about, users will probably opt for a more sophisticated version of the above games.