Seven games on one tape? They can't be any good!

That was my initial reaction. But they can be good. None of them is of the standard of the real bestsellers, but they are good value if you want a change, and two of them seem pretty original.

I had never seen anything quite like Fire Chief, in which you rescue people from tall buildings, and put out fires. The aim is to deal with as many fires as you can without running out of fuel or water. A really good game requiring speed of thought and reaction, and forward planning.

Creatures Of The Deep has you sitting in a boat fishing. Simple controls allow you only to raise and lower your line. The aim is to catch fish by reeling them into the boat. You must avoid the various monsters, or if you catch them by mistake you must remove them from your line by the appropriate method. You fish against the clock, and your catch is given in kilograms.

The other games are less original but still attractive, all with good graphics. They are:

Space Rescue - a two-screen game, with an easy first screen, and then a second screen in which you have to pick up men from the planet surface and return them to the spacecraft.

Bouncer - a bat 'n ball game with a twist which rendered me totally incapable of hitting the ball!

Chopper Chase - a nice little anti-tank warfare game.

Space Pilot Test - a Defender-type game but without a corridor. All the action takes place on a single screen.

Guns of Navarone - a gunnery simulation game, needing judgment of elevation and power to hit the attacking helicopters and destroyers.

The picture is of Creatures Of The Deep in action. The tape transferred to disc with little trouble, as none of the games has voracious memory requirements. I ran them all successfully at PAGE=&1200, needing no shifting.