Domark's latest "explosive" compilation (ho ho - yes, very droll) is pretty fair. For your money you get five comparatively recent, comparatively good (on the whole) games, all Tengen coin-op conversions.

Hard Drivin' is arguably the best of the bunch, a very good conversion of an excellent arcade original. Guide your car around either a stunt or speed track, all in glorious filled-vector 3D, with an action replay every time you engineer a spectacular prang!

Toobin' is another arcade conversion, and this one is weird! You float down a river in an old inner tube, collecting cans, lobbing empty ones at fishermen, etc and avoiding 'gators, logs and other hazards. Quirky control system but fun animation and a soundtrack you'll either love or hate. Different, and very jolly.

APB is a seen-from-above car driving game where you play a police patrol driver out to nick do-badders and at the same time pick up bonuses by the side of the road - which might however be traps set by your suspicious boss. And when you get your crim back to the cop shop, you can go to work beating a confession out of him. A pretty weak effort all round compared to the others in this compilation.

In Dragon Spirit, a vertically scrolling shoot-'em-up, you control a flying dragon rather than a turbonutterwarpbastard spaceship, but it doesn't make too much difference. No prizes for graphics, and gameplay thinner than a Tory manifesto.

Xybots is a split-screen one or two-player romp round a maze of corridors infested with Xybots (even nastier than robots, we presume) of ever-increasing toughness. Along the way you pick up various power-ups and goodies so you can carry on killing Xybots and picking up... well, you can imagine the rest. Plenty of walkin'/shootin', not much thinking/laughs.

A good compilation, if only because of the excellent Hard Drivin' and Toobin'. The other three games are rather more iffy - but worth playing now and again.