The Way Of The Exploding Fist (Melbourne House) (Commodore 64)

Brilliant...! Fast and furious martial arts action combined with player skill. What more could you want?

On Court Tennis (Activision) (Commodore 64)

An absorbing game... Game, set and match to Activision.

Star League Baseball (Activision) (Commodore 64)

The instructions for the game are very comprehensive but it would have been a help to have some of the more exotic terms explained.

Bobby Charlton Soccer (Dacc) (BBC Model B)

Game control is good and the graphics are adequate. The players are a little on the small side by this is probably inevitable to enable 22 men to fit on the field.

On Field Football (Activision) (Commodore 64)

'Floating intelligence' enables the computer to vary its standard of play along with yours.

Frank Bruno's Boxing (Elite) (Commodore 64)

The animation is great and play action really addictive. A champion game!

Rocky (Dinamic) (Spectrum 48K)

Rocky doesn't offer quite as much variety as Frank Bruno's Boxing, but if you're not into fighting strategy and enjoy a good punch up - then Rocky is the boxer for you.

Knockout! (Alligata) (Spectrum 48K)

It's a satisfying boxing game - but it loses on points to Rocky and Frank Bruno!

Amazon Warrior (New Generation) (Commodore 64)

A challenging game which should keep you hooked.

Web Dimension (Activision) (Commodore 64)

Has an addictive quality which keeps you playing.

Herbert's Dummy Run (Mikro-Gen) (Spectrum 48K)

A game packed full of interesting, amusing and fairly difficult tasks for you to complete and riddles to solve.

Operation Swordfish (British) (Commodore 64/128)

It bills itself as 'the ultimate war game'. It's good but not that good.

Timeslip (English) (Commodore 16/Plus 4)

Timeslip's designer and programmer Jon Williams, has come up with a nifty and exciting little game.

Jet Set Willy II (Software Projects) (Commodore 64)

Bound to be one of this summer's biggest sellers - miss it at your peril!

Elidon (Orpheus) (Commodore 64)

The game is visually stunning, with the best graphics I have yet seen on the Commodore.

Tapper (U. S. Gold) (Spectrum 48K)

A fast and furious game with good graphics and average sound.

Dun Darach (Gargoyle Games) (Spectrum 48K)

A real step forward for the arcade animation adventure game.

Jump Jet (Anirog) (Commodore 64)

For those who like flight simulations, Jump Jet is well worth buying.

Contraption (Icon) (BBC Model B)

Madcap lunacy sums it up...! The screens are very lively with plenty of movement, although there are rather too many dead ends.

Danger Mouse In Double Trouble (Creative Sparks) (Amstrad CPC464)

All the same ingredients which made the Danger Mouse game such a success on other machines are present in the Amstrad version.

Fiona Rides Out/Dare Devil Dennis (Viper) (Commodore 64)

Fiona is the better game with good quality animated graphics, twelve levels of increasing difficulty and frequent trips to hell.

Falcon Patrol II (Virgin Games) (Spectrum 48K)

The graphics are OK, the sound not too hot and gameplay eventually extremely boring. Give this one a miss.

The Captive (Mastertronic) (Commodore 64)

While the graphics or the idea behind the game may not be brilliant, it would be silly to grumble considering the price of the game.

Wizadore (Imagine) (BBC Model B)

Wizadore looks as if it will retain its mysteries for a long time to come and gradually unfold, rather than being a flash-in-the-pan.

Leonardo (Creative Sparks) (Spectrum 48K)

A powerful package. The manual, although comprehensive, was far too technical for the average user and really you'd need to be a seasoned designer to get instant results.

The Designer's Pencil (Activision) (Commodore 64)

A interesting but slow technique for jotting and drawing. It produces good end results - even though, as an artist, I would have liked more freedom to jot and draw rather than have shapes 'dictated' to me.

Artstar (Unknown) (Commodore 64)

The Artist (Softechnics) (Spectrum 48K)

The concept is a good one, and is obviously aimed at the games designer with its animated figures you can all up instantly.

Graphito (Addison-Wesley) (BBC/Electron)

It is a joy to use and very powerful. Nice stored graphics and lettering too.

Lightmagic (New Generation) (Spectrum 48K)

The greatest thing about Lightmagic is the user ready icons - everything from helicopters to tanks, boats and bricks.

Dragonworld (Telarium) (Commodore 64)

One of the better adventures I have played for some time, and should provide many hours of spills and thrills for adventurers of moderate skill. Shame about the slow Commodore disc loading though.

Temple Of Apshai (Epyx) (Commodore 64)

The Atari game comes to the Commodore... It has much better colour graphics and sound effects, although this seems to have been at the expense of keyboard response.

Curse Of The Seven Faces (Artic Computing) (Spectrum 48K)

Being in machine code, the response is immediate and the replies, although not identifying an invalid word, do give a clue as to whether a command is unrecognised or impossible.

Alice In Wonderland (Windham Classics) (Commodore 64)

A charming game which should delight the younger computer games player and plenty of older ones as well.

Ashkeron (Mirrorsoft) (Spectrum 48K/128K)

Ashkeron is a very playable adventure from Mirrorsoft and is destined, I think, to become very popular.

Assassin (Robico) (Acorn Electron)

Hmmm... Adventures are problem games, but this one is very frustrating for its lack of clues coupled with its poor command vocabulary and "Can't guess" replies.

Bored Of The Rings (Silver Soft) (Spectrum 48K)

Certainly not a typical run-of-the-mill adventure. If has large amounts of text in a Gothic character set which will, at the very least, bring a smile to your face.

The Helm (Firebird) (Spectrum 48K/128K)

Overall, the game performed well, but didn't hold my interest for very long and the attempts at humour wore thin very quickly.

Serpent From Hell (Scorpio Gamesworld) (Spectrum 48K)

Graphics are to be found in the game, but to me these were so slow and boring that they seemed a complete waste of time and memory. Avoid this at all costs!