Brainteasers (Phoenix)

The games are the kind that interests people new to the excitement of computers.

Lunar Rescue (Alligata)

Requires great dexterity... If you like action, it's sufficiently different to make it worth buying.

Ghouls (Micro Power)

Ghouls is a great game with superb sound, fair graphics and enough problems to keep the player trying.

JCB Digger (Acornsoft)

The idea behind JCB Digger is novel, but in the final analysis lacks the punch of previous offerings from Acornsoft. The idea is not done justice by the screen display.

Dodg'Em (Microgame Simulations)

The animation is not very fast, but then if it were, you'd never get past the first screen. Altogether, it's quite a nice game of its type.

Micropuzzles (Pan)

Pan's foray into computer book publishing isn't going well. This is the best of a bad bunch, yet, even though it includes 60 puzzles that are soluble by the computer, in several cases the author says that doing it logically with pen and paper is more efficient!

Computer Gamesmanship (Century)

A collection of articles by David Levy previously published in PCW... I would have preferred to see some changes to the original articles to reflect the latest developments but it remains quite good value.

Lost City (Superior)

The adventure is good, with a fair number of locations... However, there appears to be no 'save-game' facility.

Colditz Adventure (Superior)

Good for beginners or programmers, but a little too simple, and it should be more user-friendly.

101 Puzzles To Solve On Your Microcomputer (Harrap)

Andrew Hilton has done a good job in sorting his puzzles into number-crunchers, problems involving the use of nine or ten different digits once only, exercises in probability and codes and ciphers.