Parasol Stars (Ocean)

Brilliant... Beautifully-drawn, animated nasties follow you around smoothly... Never a hint of poor collision detection or sub-standard movement routines.

Epic (Ocean)

The best blaster the ST has seen for a long time.

Space Crusade (Gremlin)

Space Crusade looks like it might be fun... right up until the point at which you start to play it. The main problem is, everything in the game is totally random.

Wizkid (Ocean)

A good-looking, fun game which you can play all the way to end and then still load up on the occasional whim for a quick blast.

Ishar: Legend Of The Fortress (Silmarils)

While there's nothing radically new in Ishar, it's a highly polished state-of-the-art version of an old favourite. If you are an aficionado of the orc 'n' elves genre, this is for you.

The Addams Family (Ocean)

Buy it if you appreciate platform games, but not for any other reason. It's got nothing to do with the film or the TV show.

Winter Super Sports '92 (Flair)

Events range from the quite-useful-if-you're-caught-in-a-snowstorm to the very-silly-unless-you-work-on-a-farm-in-Finland.

Warriors Of Releyne (Impressions Ltd)

As a graphical wargame, it's fun, not slow and has many facets to consider in the combat. But, as a fantasy game, it's a classic example of pedantic speech, wizened crones, crooning wizards and vowel-evacuation.

Cartoon Collection (Codemasters)

Buy this only if you're under ten years of age; if your attention span is no longer than ten minutes, if you're hopeless at memory games where you have to remember the attributes of objects, or if you just enjoy gawping at cartoons.