Air Bucks (Impressions)

If you like your gaming to be easy on the jumping and blasting, but heavy on its complexity and realism, you are sure to enjoy Air Bucks a great deal.

Popeye 2 (Alternative)

A capably presented but otherwise simplistic game which makes no attempt to transcend the limitations of its well-thumbed genre.

Fire And Ice (Renegade)

A decent hero in a gripping adventure with some brilliantly addictive gameplay and a long, long shelf-life.

Sport's Best (Loriciel)

Panza Kick Boxing is excellent, Tennis Cup is good, but not as good as Pro Tennis Tour 2 and Turbo Cup is rubbish.

Ultima VI (Mindscape)

An enormous adventure to keep you going for hours and hours, but the task might be too daunting for new adventurers.

Cool Croc Twins (Empire)

A nigglingly annoying reptilian platformer. If this was addictive, it'd be ace. But, erm, it isn't.

Shuttle (Virgin)

More complex than F19, MiG 29 and Their Finest Hour put together. And slower than all these as well. Unlike any other game around, really.

Hook (Ocean)

Well programmed and a lot of fun to play, but it seems to lack that spark which makes Lure Of The Temptress or Monkey Island so exciting.

International Sports Challenge (Empire)

There's quite a mixture of events, but they are all highly unplayable and terminally boring.

Discovery: The Steps Of Columbus (Impressions Ltd)

Emlyn Hughes International Soccer (Touchdown)

Involving, excellent fun. Because you can control both aspects of the game, you develop a real affinity with all the members of your team.

Final Command (Action 16)

Very, very good. The graphics, sound and spelling are, erm, typically French, and the complex plot promises plenty of brain-cell activity.

Steg The Slug (Codemasters)

Very playable, but with little lasting appeal - you can complete the first three levels in an hour... It's a pleasant enough way to while away an unpleasant rainy afternoon.

BSS Jane Seymour (GBH)

A fair 3D adventure hampered by an unnecessarily long-winded control system and too much loading and disk-swapping.

Italy 1990 (Kixx)

Italy 1990 is cursed with what appears to be a pitch over 700 feet long, with the players belting up and down at thigh-defying speeds. It's not much fun as Kick Off though.

Spike In Transilvania (Codemasters)

Ghastly. It's too twee for the teens, too fiddly for the teenies, and the wholly unremarkable gameplay spoils it for everyone else.