Reviews

After making the debut release for the Sinclair Spectrum software catalogue in Games 1, ICL decided to follow it up with the imaginatively named Games 2. As per the earlier release, there were four programs on offer:

Galactic Invasion is an obvious rehash of the earlier Martian Knockout with a few graphical tweaks, plus you're firing in the opposite direction. Once you've figured this out, there's really nothing to it.

Drop A Brick describes what you'd probably have done had you parted with hard cash for a copy of this tape in 1982. However, the game itself is a poor Breakout clone, massively inferior to Psion's Thro' The Wall, which everyone would already have had via the Horizon's tape. A singularly pointless effort.

Silhouette similarly replicates the functionality of the Draw program on the Horizon tape, albeit being even more useless. Again a bit of a waste of time.

Train Race provides the closest thing the compilation gets to a saving grace. It's a simple betting game with some cheerful and chunky graphics; the sort of thing you might have actually bothered to save to tape had you typed it in from a magazine listing.

Alas, it's nowhere near good enough to offset the other three games and ICL somehow managed to come up with something that was even worse than Games 1 here.