Atari owners will be pleased to see the price of Dam Busters, a simulation of the Ruhr Dams raid by Lancaster bombers in 1943. The game may not be of Zaxxon or Pole Position standard, but at least its pricing is a giant leap in the right direction.

Penguin Software's new Apple game Arcade Boot Camp is a tongue-in-cheek, arcade-style 'levels' game.

Full Throttle is Micromega's follow up to Codename Mat and is not quite of the same high standard we have come to expect from the company. It's motorcycle based but isn't a rewrite of Death Chase. This one is Pole Position on a bike. You compete against forty riders on ten courses ranging in difficulty from Silverstone to Nurburgring. While there are only four controls - left, right, accelerate and brake - there is a very neat 'skid factor' with sound when you take bends. Running into another rider or off the course only slows you down, rather than being terminal.

There's been a spate of computer versions of card games recently; we've seen Poker on the Commodore 64 and Spectrum as well as Spectrum versions of Blackjack and Pontoon, and now Gamma Software has released the first computer version of two-player Cribbage. Gamma has also launched an 'advanced' adventure, Orc Slayer, and an arcade game, Mad Hatter, in which you have to tidy up the Hatter's house and collect food for his picnic with Alice.

Phoenix is now selling its double games, one arcade and one adventure, on single cassettes. The first of these is Quest For The Garden Of Eden on the C64. Included in the package is a 'Phoenix Panic Packet' which gives you the code necessary to run the adventure as well as four clues to help you solve it.

Talent is a new company, its first releases include games for the BBC, Electron and Commodore 64. West is an adventure set in guess where, with a vocabulary of over 200 words, as many phrases and 130 locations. Events happen in real-time, as in Valhalla or The Hobbit (i.e. thinks happen while you're thinking). The BBC and Electron versions of the game are text only. Apparently, all Talent games are written in Stab-1, a portable high-level language developed at Strathclyde University which, incidentally, helped found and support the new company.

Matching Pairs is one of CCS' latest budget games and is a version of 'Pelmanism' or the card game Pairs. You're presented with a grid and can see the colour/texture behind any two placed at any go. Your task is to select matching pairs.

Rainy Day is a trio of games, one of which is little more than a reaction timer - really exciting this one. In Codebreaker you have 15 seconds to crack the code while Puzzle Unit is one of those games where you have to swap pieces in a grid to remake a picture.

Pocket money games are fine in theory, but in practice we're finding that you'd often do better to hack in the listings given in computer magazines!

Panorama (H) is a graphics system for the Commodore 64 and was used to develop all the graphics for Talent's Commodore 64 games. The program is one of a series of graphics tools from Talent; the others are Animate, for designing animated sequences, and Sprite, a sprite designer. Panorama offers all the usual features you'd expect to find in a graphics package, as well as some very useful additions. Among these are rubber banding, block drag, magnification, texturing, mirroring and more. The package comes with a 37 page manual and, at least on paper, looks very good indeed.

Trans-Express is described as the essential Microdrive companion. It's a file conversion utility to allow you to transfer programs between tapes and Microdrives. The Polish company with the unlikely name of Romantic Robot will also supply you with any of the four parts separately at £5.50.

Spectune gives you basic instruction in music theory, allowing you to play, write, record and understand the way music is written and read. The Spectrum keyboard is converted into a simple musical keyboard, though perhaps the Spectrum is a curious choice for a music package...