Gobliiins (Dream Factory)

Charming, idiosyncratic and oozing with quality, and that's just the graphics. As for longevity, you try everything, find nothing works, and hate the damn game - but you'll still be determined to beat it.

Legend (Mindscape International Inc)

Tag have obviously encoded some sort of subliminal "enjoyment" message into the game. It shouldn't be fun and it shouldn't be absorbing, but it is.

Award Winners (Empire)

A good compilation. Three excellent (and classic) games with just one duff is pretty good going: any one of the three keeps you going for ages, and you can at least use a cheat on Space Ace and gawp at the pretty graphics.

Potsworth And Co. (Hi-Tec Premier)

It's fun for a short while, but it doesn't offer anything new, exciting or original that can't be found in plenty of other platform games.

Formula One Grand Prix (Microprose)

Fifteen races after you first load it up you begin to realise why the real-life drivers earn so much money. It's hard. But, like most hard things, it's worth practising.

Steel Empire (Millennium)

The gameplay is up to the job, although the artificial intelligence of your opposing cyborgs is a bit on the ropey side.

A320 Airbus (Thalion)

Where this game really scores is its accuracy and detail. It creates realistic conditions for you to develop and practise your flying skills. This realism provides a challenge that gives you a sense of achievement when you have succeeded.

Last Ninja 3 (System 3)

If you've stuck with the Ninjas this far, you may as well get the final episode. The graphics are a tad disappointing though - they've got a sort of dingy, scrappy look.

Samurai: The Way Of The Warrior (Impressions Ltd)

Impressions are getting pretty good at these sorts of games. This one looks quite interesting, has a reasonable amount of detail - or at least, things you can do in it - and doesn't run at the same pace as Continental Drift.

Quattro Fighters (Codemasters)

Not very good at all, really. None of them, so it's not really worth spending your money.

Saint Dragon (Kixx)

A bit of a surprise... This game may well remind the software houses of how much fun a good shoot-'em-up has the potential to be.

Utopia: The New Worlds (Gremlin)

There's not all that much to say about data disks. If you like the original game, they offer another three months of frantic obsession; if you don't, they're no more use than small blue square things.

Superski 2 (Microids)

This is well put together with a fair amount of gameplay. It is just a skiing game though, so the novelty will wear off, but it's still an enjoyable little game.

Psyborg (Loriciel)

This isn't a good game and the gameplay is only just on the right side of the border between existing and not.

Leander (Psygnosis)

It's hard to see the attraction of most platform games. Most of them are huge mental-mapping exercises with repetitious and unchallenging gameplay. Leander isn't that much different, but at least it has some snazzy graphics.