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How many people reading this review key in programs from magazines? If too frequently, due to a combination of mistyping - more often than you think - and errors in the listing - less often than you blame - it doesn't work properly, if at all. Well, perhaps, here is what you have been looking for.

This tape has 50 games, yes 50, all different types, all the sort of thing that your hours of keying from magazines might yield. And although I didn't try every single one, they all seem to work. But it's definitely quantity not quality that you get.

The vast majority are solely in Basic, although a few have machine code routines, and that's probably the best reason for buying it. To pull the games apart, see how they work, perhaps alter and improve them - but not actually to play them. The second best reason is because you've just before a C64 and are short of cash for software. It will give you hours of fun, and make you even more appreciative of the top class games when you can afford them.

It's interesting to note that others I've talked to about the tape reckon that it's mostly rubbish, but there are one or two worth playing. The trouble is, no-one can agree on which the one or two goods ones are. £9.95 for one or two games is hardly good value for money, but think of the hours you can spend deciding which you think are the worthwhile ones.

B.J.