2D Game Maker/CRL (YS35, 3)    Designer boredom. A utility involving 3D effort to create 2D games of 1D possiblities. Perfect for masochists. Action Force II/Virgin (YS30, 9)    Strategic carnage with snazzy programming and natty graphics. On a par with Cybernoid and Rastan. Airbourne Ranger/Microprose (YS37, 7)    A fair shoot 'em up with bearable graphics and acceptable addictiveness, but average multi-load stricken gameplay. Black Lamp/Firebird (YS29, 7)    Graphically sound, but the fiddly bits slow things down a little. Fun for the few for the while. Blood Brothers/Gremlin (YS32, 7)    An annoying platform shoot 'em up, saved only by a savagely addictive sub-game. Blood Valley/Gremlin (YS30, 5)    Blood Valley is an average game that's certainly not one of Gremlin's best. By Fair Means Or Foul/Superior (YS37, 6)    A mediocre boxing attempt that just does not survive the count. Cauldron/Silverbird (YS38, 9) Chubby Gristle/Grandslam (YS33, 5)    An arid game: dried-up gameplay, dessicated graphics, not one to quench your addictive thirsts. Crosswize/Firebird (YS31, 9)    Supa'-doopa' graphics, arcade style difficulty, and faultless programming make this game a classic - on a par with Zynaps. Cybernoid/Hewson (YS29, 9)    A new breed of game. Every adjective you can think of to sum up sheer excellence. Daley Thompson's Olympic Challenge/Ocean (YS35, 7)    A challenging, difficult sports sim with outstanding graphics but one track waggling game-play. Fernandez Must Die/ImageWorks (YS35, 8)    Commando clone with strategic knobs on (Fnar!) and cars and tanks and trains and bases and bombs... need I go on? Gauntlet/Kixx (YS38, 9) Hellfire Attack/Martech (YS38, 4)    An uninspired chopper game. Give it the chop. Impossible Mission II/Epyx (YS33, 9)    Agent 4125 is back in excellent form against the evil Elvin Atombender. (Oo-er) A triumphant return with many new wazzy puzzles! In Crowd, The/Ocean (YS40, 9)    An excellent selection of shoot and beat 'em ups with a lot to appeal to the combat connoisseur. Let down only by a poor driving game. But at this price you can afford to ignore it. Motor Massacre/Gremlin (YS40, 5)    Horrible bird's-eye viewed driving game, lacking in any good graphics, fun or playability. The kind of game articulated lorries were designed to run over. Netherworld/Hewson (YS38, 8)    Boulderdash minus Rockford and gravity, plus a polo mint and sci-fi storyline. Flickering graphics but brilliantly balanced gameplay and - man! - it is addictive. Overlander/Elite (YS34, 9)    For Sale: 1988 Road Race Game `Overlander'. Play tested. Good Runner. Excellent performance. A good buy. Real Ghostbusters, The/Activision (YS42, 62)    Poor shoot 'em up that looks good in some places but plays bad in most. Ring Wars/Cascade (YS38, 8)    Unoriginal plot, but technically superb wired frame graphics with action, lasers and planets to land on. Road Blasters/US Gold (YS34, 8)    A verdcant road racing game. It grows on you like a leech SDI/Activision (YS39, 6)    Detailed but arthritic graphics don't help to alleviate the monotony and dullness of this mediocre shoot'em up. Sphinx Jinx - Total Eclipse II/Incentive (YS43, 90)    Excellent Egyptian elaboration on the Total Eclipse theme, fab value, and good 'entry-level' for Freescape games. Target Renegade/Ocean (YS31, 9)    Graphically yum-yum, deliciously playable, succulently addictive - a game connoisseurs delight. Wanderer/Elite (YS41, 69)    Seemingly naff space trading game which really begins to glow when you turn on the 3D effect. Xybots/Domark (YS44, 80)    As good a conversion as anyone could hope for. A good laff in two player mode.