Compilation tapes can be extremely frustrating affairs. If you already own half the games on them, you're bound to feel torn about buying them a second time for the sake of the rest of the titles on here. But there's no doubt they represent good value for someone who's just bought a C64 and wants to build up a software library the legal way.

Now Games 2 offers five games originally released in the spring of 1985. Three are winners, two also-rans.

First off is Elite System's Airwolf, one of the winners. Based on the TV series, it's a cross between fast-moving shoot-'em-up and brain-twisting arcade-adventure. You have control over the Airwolf helicopter and have to pick your way through a hazardous underground labyrinth in search of five scientists who need rescuing.

The game requires an extremely deft touch on the joystick as the helicopter's movement is extremely responsive, and many of the gaps you have to manoeuvre through are pretty tiny. The puzzle element consists largely in working out what order to do certain tasks - for example, shooting out a switch can open a new section of the game. Be warned there are plenty of surprises.

The same can't be said of A&F's Chuckie Egg 2. The original Chuckie Egg was an addictive, if simple, platform game. The follow up is an arcade-adventure but of very primitive standard - Spectrumesque graphics and unoriginal puzzle solving.

Fortunately, there are two far better arcade-adventures on the tape: Cauldron from Palace Software and Tir Na Nog from Gargoyle. Both have very classy graphics - Cauldron has a beautifully detailed scrolling background, while Tir Na Nog features the superbly animated Celtic character Cuchulainn.

Of the two Tir Na Nog has a much stronger puzzle element, but the action in Cauldron is much faster and more exciting. The latter game stars a witch whose time is divided between flying around the earth on her broomstick, and leaping from platform to platform in one of four underground caverns.

The other football games on the tape aren't really worth talking about, but never mind, the three good titles make this compilation a bargain for latecomers. The ratings below refer to them.