Yes, here it is, the game that's kept the Amstrad Action team at each other's throats all month. Frantic oaths have been muttered as we've fought it out over the high score tables of three golden oldies. Classic Invaders, Muncher and Axiens are the three games on offer, and together they make an astounding bundle.

All three are copies of more famous arcade licences - and very old licences at that. They hail from the days when aliens came at you in neat and tidy waves, when power pills let you rule the maze roost, and smart bombs weren't invented. Very basic (!), they have a magic in their simplicity that's hard to define, but impossible to ignore.

Classic Invaders is merely sheet upon sheet of multi-coloured nasties slowly moving down the screen, your only defence being a feeble little gun and three shields. Complex it ain't, but great fun it is. Muncher is a Pac Man clone, only with smaller and therefore more difficult mazes. Axiens could be called Galaxians if copyright would allow, but what's in a name? The game's the same, pure and simple arcade fun. All three games have the speed of the originals - and then some.

Gameplay hadn't even been thought of when these games were written and yet it doesn't seem to matter. Fast and furious copies, these are more than a match for their arcade parents of yesteryear, and at such a ridiculously low price, who could afford to be without them?!

Anyone under the age of 20 probably won't remember these golden oldies. These are the games that started it all - with playability that you'd be hard pressed to find in many more modern games.

Still brilliant!

Invaders: 50,000 points
Muncher: Reach Screen Four
Axiens: 10,000 points

Graphics 20%
N. Graphics look as if they go back to the stone age...
P. ...but who cares?.

Sonics 50%
P. Nice tunes.
N. Blip effects.

Grab Factor 95%
P. Instant addiction.
P. Appeals to all ages.

Staying Power 81%
P. True classics.

Overall 78%
P. Simple, naive charm.