The Artist (The Edge)

Best liked features are the extended brush and pattern functions, the overlay technique, the practical circle function and the extremely fast fill routine.

Blast (Oxford Computer Systems)

Not so much a Blast, more of a Phut.

Buck Rogers (US Gold)

Neither addictive nor playable... I really think that US Gold are scraping the barrel a bit with this one. In fact, I remember that even in the arcades, 'Buck Rogers' was always the empty machine that nobody seemed to want to play.

Chinese Patience (Atlantis)

The main disadvantages with having the Spectrum as an opponent are the time it takes to make its moves and the fact it doesn't miss your silly mistakes - as I discovered!

Cluedo (Leisure Genius)

Nicely put together: a must for every board game fan's software collection.

Codename Mat II (Domark)

I wouldn't play this game a lot as it is a little too involved for me to handle, even though it is quite addictive.

The Colt (HiSoft)

Recommended to hardened hackers, especially if The Executive's facilities fills a gap in their present armoury.

Desert Burner (Creative Sparks)

If the graphics had been a lot better and smoother this might not be such a bad game but as it is it's pretty average.

Highway Encounter (Vortex)

This is a superb game, the gameplay is fast and thrilling, the graphics quick, smooth and detailed.

Intermediate Level French (Scisoft)

Although hardly innovative, this package does provide quite useful practice in the French language.

Jack In Crazyland (Turtle)

An ideal stimulus for all sorts of classwork reading, vocabulary building, art and craft work, and so on... This is exactly the sort of program that children love and teachers want.

Malice In Wonderland (Sentient)

An interesting adventure with some good prompts along with some fine touches of humour.

MCoder III (PSS)

It is certainly possible to write hit games with a Basic compiler - Virgin's Sorcery and PSS's Frank N Stein prove that - but there are still times when only machine code can deliver the goods.

Metabolis (Gremlin)

Should provide hours of fun for the cartographers.

Monty On The Run (Gremlin)

Vastly bigger and more complex than Wanted: Monty Mole with many more inter-related elements... Both a platform jumping game and one of skilled timing with adventure overtones.

Nick Faldo's Open (Argus Press)

An excellent simulation and well worth investigating.

On The Run (Design Design)

The objective is pretty simple but the sheer size of the game demands great stamina and good joystick-jockeying.

Poker (Ducksoft)

This is one of the best of the many poker simulations that I have seen. It's quite playable if you like this sort of game.

Popeye (DK'Tronics)

Brilliant! Buy it to believe it. For the first time, masses of colour has been used and with no colour clash. To say the least, I've never seen anything like it.

Project X: The Micro Man (Compass)

Where it falls down is in its vocabulary, which is unfriendly, and with its graphics, which are simple and generally poor.

Red Arrows (Database)

Play is slow and uninteresting - when I first started I found it difficult to tell whether the computer was in control or I was.

Red Moon (Level 9 Computing)

Computer entertainment at its best.

Roland's Rat Race (Ocean)

Boooorrriiinnng. There is nothing really new on the graphics side, a bit of basic animation is about the biggest thrill graphically.

Snapple Hopper (Macmillan)

These two games are extremely simple in design, but will provide fun and useful reinforcement of word recognition skills for the young child.

Southern Belle (Hewson)

It's very exciting and involved when attempting speed runs... At high speed you must always be very careful not to de-rail the train.

St. Crippens (Creative Sparks)

This is a good game if only because you're bound to have quite a few laughs over it.

Super Brat (Atlantis)

As tennis games go it's very acceptable for the money, but perhaps not for the purist.

Talos (Silversoft)

I had quite a lot of fun playing Talos so I feel safe in declaring it to be above average.

That's The Spirit (The Edge)

The Edge have produced a game that adds to the trend of making adventures more accessible.

Warlords (Interceptor Micros)

The plot of this adventure is a shade stilted. However, if you liked the predecessors in this Interceptor series, you'll certainly like this one.