Reviews

Decent enough presentation (especially Bob's quizzical eyebrow raises and flaring nostrils) but a severe shortage of questions.

A dog's breakfast of a game. Clunky controls, slow, graphically lacking, laughably bad speech. About all that can be said for it is that it has variety, and the intro is reasonable.

Fantastic game, I had a lot of fun just running around the school causing havoc and writing rude things on the blackboards (well, it was a while ago!)

I really liked the graphical style of these Microsphere games, colourful and stylish. Highly recommended!

Bizarre but playable platform game. I liked branding the cow and bouncing on the drunkard's belly but never managed to finish.

Unforgivingly difficult to the point of frustration for me - most of the time I barely managed to get into the cave system, let alone deliver the orbs!

My poor dad bought me this game when I was a kid, as a special surprise. I still feel awful for the loss of his money.

Fairly enjoyable Pacman-alike. Not as good as Pacmania but with a certain addictive quality, nevertheless.

Irredeemable dross.

Fantastically boring beat em up with the typical Ocean subgames. Nicely presented, but tedious in the extreme.

Competent platformer, with possibly too much trial and error.

Well-presented multipart game, which suffered from a ridiculously difficult first part with a gyrating vector dot tunnel which I never beat. Using cheats, the second part isn't all that great either, being a maze game to find Newt, in identical sorta-isometric maze areas. The third part is some sort of reskinned Tapper - you must destroy the aliens before they reach your bar, I guess. I never defeated them, and I have a feeling this is deliberate. Final stage is the world's worst beat em up, where you attempt to throw the alien queen out of the airduct with freight loader fisticuffs.

It sounds great and yet every part is worse than expected.

Management-styled game based on the BBC tv series. Very faithful to the source material, which makes it a must for fans; for everyone else it's an unusual choose-your-own-adventure game. Your aim is to improve your poll rating over 5 days so that you can remain Prime Minister. However, doing this involves having to outwit the Civil Service (in the form of Sir Humphrey Appleby, ostensibly your advisor as the Cabinet Secretary, but who will also push his agenda as the head of the Civil Service) and various other interests.

An original and interesting game - unfortunately, the lack of random elements keeps replayability low.

A licensed game of the movie converted from the already-godawful Amiga version. Avoid.

I'm confused about this game. It's as good a conversion as you would expect, but the original game wasn't all that special, outside of the arcade. It's colorful and fast, but absolutely unremarkable.

Perhaps the most ill-advised of all of Domark's Tengen licences. A visually-intensive arcade game with less than average playability crammed into the Spectrum is a recipe for disaster. A disaster it is.

Hugely inept and disappointing sequel to the masterly Chase HQ.

Quite what Clive Townshend was playing at with this after the Saboteur games is beyond guessing. Quite awful.

Utter trash. One wonders how it got decent reviews - perhaps the reviewers didn't play it?

Postman Pat is a curious hybrid of Paperboy and an arcade adventure - with the lasting appeal of neither.

To begin with, Pat must deliver letters into the flashing mailboxes - so far so Paperboy. The action is viewed from above and the driving controls are dubious, to say the least. I found it easier to navigate Greendale backwards.

After succeeding in his task, and returning to the Post Office (for a frankly disturbing "cup of tea" sequence), Pat is roped into various other chores such as delivering parcels, messages and er.. catching sheep. The latter event occurs on a vilely rendered field area that you would never find without navigating the entire map and noticing a mysterious side lane that serves no other purpose.

All in all, I regret my time spent in Greendale. It's yet another Alternative licensed game with few redeeming features.

Decent Commando-type game. I recall ignoring the typical "hilarious" Jon Pillar review in YS back in the day, and enjoying it.

Decent little quiz game, marred slightly by the frequency and number of obscure musichall questions

Sorry, but I found this game a complete heap of garbage - about equal with "Fighting Warrior" or "Gladiator".

Dire beat 'em up, with no redeeming feature.

Another piece of trash from Domark. The concept is sound but the execution belongs in the arena

Competent baseball game, with the usual caveat that the fielding is unfun and throwing the ball to the correct base is nigh-impossible.

Great game, fine conversion

This conversion was never going to work.

Curiously enjoyable adaptation of the boardgame, marred by the Speccy soundchip's ineptitude during the music questions.

Incomprehensible remix of the original boardgame

An arcade conversion that probably made a lot more sense in the boardroom

Dreadful control method ruins any potential this licenced effort had