4x4 Off-Road Racing (Epyx)

It's a fun simulation and should provide you with hours of fun.

The Archon Collection (Electronic Arts)

Spooky, mythological corker. Great stuff... As a good value package, you can't really go wrong with this.

Bigfoot (Codemasters)

Bigfoot is not a bad game, but it's not a patch on Treasure Island Dizzy, for instance, or indeed Antiriad.

Blasteroids (Imageworks)

Fine update of an addictive but rather one key arcade classic.

BMX Freestyle (Codemasters)

This game wants to be a sort of BMX equivalent of those Winter/Summer/World/California Games compilations, but it's infinitely more boring than any of those.

Camelot Warriors (Mastertronic)

A snorefest of the first order. Slow, nothing much to look at, unreasonably hard and full of irritating little game features that went out with Manic Miner.

Circus Games (Tynesoft)

Tynesoft is, if my knowledge serves me, a software house more used to putting products out for the BBC and suchlike computers, only occasionally making a foray into the Speccy market. On the showing of Circus Games, I think this is something we should all be grateful for.

Dragon Ninja (Imagine)

Dragon Ninja is an interesting game and the graphics are well thought-out, but I would only recommend this game to anyone sick enough to want to rescue George Bush.

Dynamic Duo (Firebird)

A seriously weird but enjoyable clash with the powers of evil (or something).

Emlyn Hughes International Soccer (Audiogenic)

Well-implemented (control systems aside) but ultimately derivative football game, combining action and strategy to little effect.

Fire And Forget (Titus)

Don't fire, just forget it! A lucklustre shoot-'em-up car game with little variation.

Human Killing Machine (US Gold)

Should provide hours of fun for all you beat-'em-up enthusiasts out there.

The In Crowd (Ocean)

An excellent selection of shoot and beat-'em-ups, with a lot of appeal to the combat connoisseur. Let down only a poor driving game.

Jocky Wilson's Darts Challenge (Zeppelin)

It's not too easy to see where young Jocky fits into it all, but so what? It's good fun anyway, with excellent graphics and well thought out gameplay.

Motor Massacre (Gremlin)

Horrible birds-eye viewed driving game, lacking in any good graphics, fun or playability. The kind of game articulated lorries were designed to run over.

Obliterator (Psygnosis)

An uninspired shoot-'em-up. Once you've completed the game, you're unlikely to come back for afters.

Professional Soccer (CRL)

It's Football Director gone legit - a game that'll appeal to the growing ranks of 'dry' footie sim fans.

Rally Simulator (Zeppelin Games)

The graphics are excellent and, while the gameplay's absolutely straightforward, it's curiously addictive.

Reveal (Mastertronic)

Perfect budget material - nothing that's likely to stretch you too far, but good cheapy fun.

Run The Gauntlet (Ocean)

Not particularly well implemented, but quite good fun despite it. It could have been a lot better.

The Sacred Armour Of Antiriad (Mastertronic)

Good fun, and the sort of game that keeps you going right until the end.

Treasure Island Dizzy (Codemasters)

The graphics are neat and clear, and the gameplay is ruthlessly logical.

War In Middle Earth (Melbourne House)

This is a big game, for big heads. It's a fabby strategy game, based on a great story.

Werewolves Of London (Mastertronic)

An aimless chase-about with drab graphics and terminally tedious gameplay. A curious failure in many ways, as the ideas behind it were so good.

Xenon (Melbourne House)

A very good conversion which, as space shoot-'em-ups go, is a bit of a rip snorter! A mite tricky, but well playable and addictive to boot!

Zone Trooper (Gamebusters)

A total write-off. Collision detection is all over the place, the attribute clash is a disgrace, and no matter how you play, you always get through about ten screens and then die.