Now this is more like it - someone actually making use of the facilities offered by the CD. This disk contains a huge selection of PD demos and music tracks and stuff as well as over 100 games, but the games are what we're interested in.

It's a far-from-definitive selection, but there's some really good stuff in here, including Vision's Defender-alike Cybernetix, Jeff Minter's legendary Llamatron, popular Tempest clone Microbes and the groovy Blitz Basic blaster Insectoids 2, which is somehow even more fun when you're playing it with the joypad.

For £20, you really are getting a lot of stuff here, and while it feels a bit funny playing PD games on your state-of-the-art new machine, there's nothing like a bit of good old-fashioned gameplay after half an hour of struggling with Oscar and having your eyes go all funny. It cheered me up, anyway.

Excellent value, and even if you only spend a minute looking at everything on this disk, you'll still be occupied for days on end. Well worth splashing out on.