A-10 Tank Killer (Dynamix/Sierra)

Yet another addition to the ever-expanding flight sim stable. Unfortunately, the plethora of available sims means that a new one has to be top notch to stand out. This doesn't quite make it.

Universal Military Simulator II (Rainbird)

A comprehensive and capable battle simulation game spoiled by a horribly unfriendly player interface and a tendency to throw you right in at the deep end.

Logical (Rainbow Arts)

Graphically lovely and intriguing game, spoiled by fundamental design flaws and excessive easiness.

Cougar Force (Tomahawk)

This is too crap for words.

Wreckers (Audiogenic)

Potentially a great game, drowned under a massive weight of totally unnecessary nitpicky details. Not bad, but nowhere near as good as it could have been.

Super Skweek (Loriciel)

A cute, addictive and well presented little number providing a neat balance between puzzle and arcade qualities. I like it.

European Superleague (CDS)

An up-to-date version of the rather old footie management type game, it's dubious that there's enough here to keep things burning long enough to justify 25 quid.

Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure (Accolade)

Too undemanding and unspectacular for the Bill and Ted name. It would be ideal for the younger players, but older dudes really needn't bother. It's not excellent enough.

Monopoly (Mastertronic)

A perfectly good conversion... but a bit of a pointless one.

Lupo Alberto (Idea)

Fun and funny... Uncomplicated platform action which would suit the younger player if it wasn't quite so awkward in places.

Germ Crazy (Electronic Zoo)

It all sounds like fun on paper, but the way it's been put together is far from satisfactory. A shame, really.

Prehistorik (Titus)

A likeable caveman platformer with plenty of 'quite nice' bits to it. But little that really stuns.

Arnhem (CDS)

A sad relic from a past era. It's just too impenetrably primitive to stand a chance, and even wargamers will be disappointed with this.

Les Manley In Search For The King (Accolade)

Semi-successful humour and gorgeous graphics paint an interesting picture of the weird side of America, but there are just too many areas where the player becomes frustrated - not with the adventure itself, but with the way in which it is played.

Stellar 7 (Dynamix/Sierra)

Lacks action, needs one meg, and is a rewrite of a six year old game that was old-fashioned to start with. But what the hell? I like it.

Eco Phantoms (Electronic Zoo)

Pretty graphics, lots of controls and sub-games but nothing interesting to do. A sorry state of affairs, really.

Blue Max (Mindscape)

A game which aspires to greatness, but falls far short. It could have been a classic, and that's what makes me angry. The best I can say is 'nice sound'.

Cadaver: The Payoff Data Disk (Renegade)

Nice addition for all Cadaver fans, of little interest to anyone else (Exactly as a levels disk should be really!).

Projectyle (Electronic Arts)

A fiercely competitive mix of air hockey and Speedball - far better with friends than on your own though.

Starflight (Electronic Arts)

A reasonably simple but undeniably vast space exploration type game.

Plutos (Prism)

The graphics are small but atmospheric, and while it's easy to start with, it gets very challenging a few levels in.

Karting Grand Prix (Prism)

The tracks are too narrow, the control system uncomfortable and illogical, and the action never really gets going for more than three seconds at a time.

Flight Path 737 (Prism)

I'd never imagined, not in my worst nightmares, that an Amiga game could be this bad. At least the title screen's nice.

Football Manager (Prism)

The game is a legend in computer strategy but the Amiga version, sadly, isn't half as good as even the Spectrum one. Dig out your old 8-bit and play it on that instead.

Frost Byte (Prism)

The graphics are no better than the 8-bit version, but it's well worth a look all the same.

Hotshot (Prism)

Play is slow and disjointed, and even the two-player competitive mode isn't very enthralling.

Quantox (Prism)

One of the most original blasters I've seen in a long time.

Seconds Out (Prism)

It's a game that's immediately limited by its choice of subject material, but it's not too badly done at all for what it is.

Warzone (Prism)

It's not exactly fast-moving, and the graphics seem for the most past to consist of yellow desert-scapes with not very much happening in them.

Mouse Trap (Prism)

The graphics are pretty primitive but in a charming kind of way, and while the music is appalling it somehow seems to fit in quite nicely.

Space Station (Prism)

Those of you with a low thrills-threshold will find this engrossing for quite a while, or at least engrossing enough to make you forget how bad it looks and sounds.

Protector (Prism)

The worst Defender clone it's been my misfortune to stumble across.

Budokan (Electronic Arts)

A neat, well presented but far too taxing and monotonous hand-to-hand stick-to-stick martial arts thingy.

Wacky Darts (Codemasters)

No more and no less than just another computer darts game with a wobbly-hand cursor control system.

Lombard Rac Rally (The Hit Squad)

Possibly a minority interest, but if you think you can handle some repetitiveness, well worth a shot.

Xenon 2 (Mirror Image)

An audio-visual banquet hung around the skeleton of a fairly ordinary (but pretty tough) vertically scrolling blaster. Still one of the most impressive Amiga games around in terms of sheer, well, impressiveness.

Predator (The Hit Squad)

High in atmosphere, but sadly lacking in gameplay. Slow, unexciting and generally quite dull.