Germ Crazy (Electronic Zoo)

A complex and absorbing game with plenty to keep you occupied for a long while - if you can just make it past those first few frustrating games.

Toki (Ocean)

Once you get used to the idea that you're controlling a laser-spitting gorilla, this is a lot of fun. The major problem with the game lies in the small screen area.

Navy SEALS (Ocean)

If you enjoy leaping from platforms and shooting things, you'll certainly enjoy this game, but it lacks that special ingredient to make it an outstanding game rather than just a reasonably good one.

Mercs (U. S. Gold)

We're hardly talking long term gaming here... If you have any experience with shoot-'em-ups, you'll be able to polish off the mission in about two days flat.

Logical (Rainbow Arts)

Highly recommended for total Tetris freaks (and German puzzle fans).

Crime Does Not Pay (Titus)

A bit of a surprise. From the box you'd think it's one of those awful street shoot-'em-ups, but it turns up to be quite an absorbing game with reasonable effects.

Champion Of The Raj (PSS)

Good fun while it lasts - assuming you're not worried about shooting tigers, whipping servants and killing even more Nepalese.

Shadow Dancer (U. S. Gold)

It's hackneyed, cliched, gaudy, predictable, banal and stereotypical, but if you like the platform hack-n-slash genre then Shadow Dancer is undoubtedly the best of a mediocre crop.

Talespin (Deltronics)

If you just want to create a trivial adventure for your friends you can do it quite easily because the package is so straightforward to use.

Impossible Mission II (Kixx)

The graphics look as though they've been ported straight from an 8-bit, unfortunately, and some of the samples are a little fuzzy, but there's still a lot to keep you interested and it's well worth the money.

Switchblade (Kixx)

Extremely average. It's not engaging enough to hold you to the end and the graphics are small and not very well animated.

Gary Lineker's Hot Shot (Kixx)

It's not as bad as certain other sims and it offers a fair game for the casual player who's not too interested in the subtler points of control.

Forgotten Worlds (Kixx)

An excellent game ruined by the control method.

California Games (Kixx)

The graphics aren't spectacular - but they're up to the job. If you can ignore the trendy and embarrassing comments that continually appear, you're in for a good time with California Games.

Outzone (Ubisoft)

For the first one or two games you'll probably be intrigued, but when you've lost a life for the fifth time and found yourself right back at the beginning again, you might find the gameplay lacking - particulary since there are 28 levels.

Prehistorik (Titus)

The graphics are bright, colourful and decently animated, the sound is average and the gameplay unsurprising.

Fantasy Graphics Disk (Deltronics)

There's bound to be something here you can use, but whether it's worth it depends on your artistic bent and the size of your bank account.

Tom And The Ghost (Ubisoft)

For all its faults, Tom And The Ghost isn't a bad game, just not quite "together". With a few tweaks it could have been made into something really special.