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"Top arcade game with action, futuristic combats and super stress!!" we are promised. Space Harrier on the Spectrum is what we get.

Slogging his way through twelve stages of shocking 3D graphics, out intrepid hero must control his Transformer-like craft deep into the heart of enemy territory and destroy the evil aliens' Big Base.

Even painting a girl on the back of the box with her noughts out has failed to make Thunder Burner at all exciting.

Piloting the jet plane is actually more fun since everything moves at a faster pace, but the bi-ped robot has a better chance of destroying the pill-boxes containing, one presumes, dirty alien scum.

It's all a bit poor, and apart from some end-of-level monsters which are presentable enough, falls a long way short of even the most basic blast standards.

And if all that seems a little harsh, Loriciels can at least comfort themselves with the knowledge that they win the Most Gratuitous Tit Award. Hooray.