Five games for the price of one, how can you beat that? The problem is that software houses usually use compilations as an excuse to fob us off with a couple of lemons in with the good stuff. Have the Codies done any fobbing-off with Super All Stars? Here's the evidence.

Captain Ernest P Dynamo, retired super-hero, has to rescue the world's diamond collection from the arch-villain Austen Von Flyswatter. The names are a tad on the sad side and the plot is so old it needs leather patches on its elbows. The gameplay lacks originality since this is merely a straight platform game. However, the result is rather entertaining. The Captain is endearing though he does look like an overweight cat in a Batman suit. All in all, Captain Dynamo is something of a winner.

Oh dear. The first CJ game - CJ's Elephant Antics - was almost a winner, in a platformy kind of way. This next outing is a duffer beyond the dreams of duffness. The wretched pachyderm leaps between platforms, collecting bombs and food, shooting baddies with his trunk and generally has a boring time of it.

The controls are awkward, the background bland, and the whole thing extremely irritating. It should never have seen the light of day.

This game remains one of Dizzy's best adventures with the usual blend of platforms and puzzle-solving. The graphics are bright and breezy - apart from that damn fool egg - the music is bouncy and bubbly and the whole thing is, er, some other thing beginning with "b".

Dizzy is on his way to being something of an institution and this little romp does nothing to tarnish his reputation.

This is a sort of Lemmings-esque puzzle save-'em-up. Steg has a family of young slugs to support. They eat maggots and all Steg has to do is to move them from where he (and the maggots) are to where the ever-hungry baby slugs are. Thankfully, Steg looks nothing like a slug and is rather lovable. The puzzle element is sufficiently intriguing to keep you coming back for more - overall, this is another winner. It is that rarest of things: an original idea for an ST game.

Sadly, this game is utter tat. It's an arcade adventure which, alone in this compilation, was never released on its own. Why not? Because no-one would have bought it. Ever.

The plot, as you might imagine, involves the Sheriff of Nottingham, Robin Hood and dear old Maid Marian. The former has the latter and Robin has to get her back. But if you can be bothered to help him, you're made of jolly stern stuff. It looks shabby, it plays shabbily and by golly, it is shabby.

So there you have it. Three little treasures, a poor one and a bit of tat. A bit of mental arithmetic shows that at £25, this equals three games for the usual £8 budget price with two bits of tat thrown in for a quid. Not all that bad, really. If you're young and naive you might get some enjoyment from the pack - even if you're an old cynic you might, unless you've had a complete sense-of-fun bypass.

Three of the five games almost justify the asking price on their own.

Two of the games are tat so if you own one of the others, there's no value for money.