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You can't imagine Bart Simpson, Arnie Schwarzenegger and Hulk Hogan sharing a bathroom, let alone a little box with "Dream Team" on the front, so what on earth are they doing here? This is one of Ocean's latest compilations featuring licences you love to hate.

Bart is a pretty standard platformer which has you jumping about all over the shop - quite literally - spraying purple flowerpots red and buying cherry bombs to throw at parrots. The aim of this is to prevent alien baddies building a machine to take over the planet.

The graphics are surprisingly good, though the aliens do tend to bounce up and down a lot - getting past them is just a matter of timing. Because you're up against a time limit and have to achieve goals on each level, gameplay can get quite frenetic, while the puzzle element prevents Bart Vs. The Space Mutants from becoming too boring.

This is one dull beat-'em-up masquerading as a licensed wrestling game and pits you against opponents with the object of winning the World Wrestling Federation's champions belt. You get to run around the ring, throw punches, kick and even do a spot of waggling in the head-locks. Then you can watch the opponents insult each other on a pixellated version of a TV screen. The chances are you're soon going to get bored with the same tired routines. Graphically, the game's nothing special - the wrestler sprites look terrible and seem jerky, while the music is just irritating. Come back, Big Daddy, all is forgiven.

Arnie's great in a scrap, but really lousy with women. You can just imagine him walking up to a girl in a bar, saying "Hasta la vista baby," then blowing her brains out. Terminator 2 is a loosely strung together collection of different game genres which represent key scenes in the movie.

There are a couple of car chases, some beat-'em-up action and even a spot of plastic surgery. The graphics are very good, especially in the fight scenes, but it doesn't really satisfy. There's no real link between the different genres and it can get a bit repetitive - for example, Level Four is just the same as Level One, but a little bit harder to complete.

Dream Team is a rag bag of old licences which must surely be past their sell-by date. None of the games are particularly outstanding and you can find better example of the featured genres elsewhere.