Pinball Wizard (Sagittarian)

A surprisingly successful attempt to simulate the not inconsiderable joys of the common pin table.

Country Cottages (Sterling)

A bit limited in that you have very few, and often no, options, but fun and original.

Grand Prix Manager (Silicon Joy)

If you enjoyed Football Manager, this is definitely a one-up.

Jewels Of Babylon (Interceptor)

Fraught and exciting... A very sophisticated command analyser makes it possible, and necessary, to enter complex actions.

Moon Alert (Ocean)

This game is pretty neat stuff. If I was you, I'd book a lunar lesson right away.

Staff Of Zaranol (Cases)

There are only 45 locations, but the puzzles, if not the most difficult around, are well conceived and fairly unusual.

Astronut (Software Projects)

Graphically excellent... Astronut contains fifteen screens, every one better than the last.

Sentinel, Avenger, Proteus & Fireflash (Abacus)

Games playable and cheap... The graphics are rather tacky-looking, and although the game designs differ in many ways from the arcade originals, the changes, to my mind, actually detract from the playability rather than increase it.

System 15000 (AVS)

A nice game. It's safer than hacking for real, lighter on the pocket and, if planting Pershings in the Kremlin is your style, very good practice!

Raid Over Moscow (US Gold)

Insubstantial, Candy-Floss software. Though it is fine for the first few minutes, I found that I quickly lost interest.

Felix Meets The Evil Weevils (Micro Power)

Not the most exciting game from Program Power's vast library and certainly not the most interesting character.

Interview (Front Runner)

Graphically brilliant, but becomes boring rather quickly.

Micro Olympics (Database Publications)

This game claims it stretches the limits of the BBC to new boundaries. It turns out to be a prehistoric version of Decathlon.

Galaxia (Kuma Computers)

A game to play on Monday mornings. No concentration needed. Just sit down and destroy.