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What is an Untouchable? The yuckky yellow bit in the centre of a Cadbury's cream egg? A pair of three week old suede underpants belonging to hippy Steve?

No. It's two year old Ocean game that originally scored a stonkin' great 95% when it was originally reviewed and therefore rates as one of the all-time greatest marks ever given out by SU.

There are six stages to the game each one involving a part of the original film where you play the gun totin' role of Treasury Agent Elliot Ness. Your mission, bring Al Capone to justice by collecting evidence that will expose his tax frauds and thereby put him behind bars (the bloody bounder!)

Each stage is totally dependant upon your prowess with a gun and you'll have five different types of shooting scene, from leaping around boxes and following the arrows towards the evidence on level one, through good old shotgun shootouts, to having a six shooter and having to duck and dive in and out of cover as you take out the higher echelons of the gang.

The action is pacey, the graphics are great and sound is spot on. The only problem you'll have with Untouchables is taking your hands off it long enough to grab some social life!

Label: Hit Squad Memory: 48K/128K Price: £3.99 Tape Reviewer: Garth Sumpter

Untouchables was one of the best blasters on the market when it first appeared on Spectrum screens nearly two years ago. And it stands as a testament to greatness that it's still one of the best shoot 'em ups on the Spectrum today!