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SAM Adventure System/Axxent (YS82, 85) SAM Coupe Arcade Development System/Glenco (YS84, 82) SAM Juggler Demo (SAM)/Codigo (YS77, 80) SAM Pack One (SAM)/Revelation (YS78, 81) SAS Combat Simulator (YS75, 88)    As part of the Quattro Fighters compilation. SDI/Activision (YS39, 6)    Detailed but arthritic graphics don't help to alleviate the monotony and dullness of this mediocre shoot'em up. SDI (YS45, 70)    As part of the Special Action compilation. SDI arcade screenshots SOS/Mastertronic (YS18, 7) STUN Runner/Domark (YS62, 64)    Tedious, repetitive and not very impressive conversion of an impossible-to-convert coin-op. Not recommended. STUN Runner (YS76, 10)    As part of the TNT II compilation. STUN Runner arcade screenshots SWIV/Storm (YS65, 90)    Addictive and very good-looking shoot-'em-up. It's not perfect, but it's still the biz. Sabotage/Zeppelin (YS31, 6) Saboteur/Durell (YS1, 9) Saboteur (YS13, UNR)    As part of the Big Four compilation. Saboteur/Encore (YS34, 8) Saboteur II/Durell (YS17, 9) Sabre Wulf (YS33, UNR)    As part of the Ultimate: The Collected Works compilation. Sacred Armour Of Antiriad, The/Palace (YS13, 8) Sai Combat/Mirrorsoft (YS5, 8) Sailing/Activision (YS17, 7) Saint And Greavsie/Grandslam (YS48, 54)    Little attempt to reproduce the banter of our two footie heros. Just questions, questions and more questions. But if that's your cuppa tea... Salamander/Konami (YS26, 4)    Nemesis part two, but don't get excited. It's awful. A backward step for shoot-'em-ups. Salamander/Imagine (YS36, 8)    A jolly good blast. Like Nemesis only more so. Just buy it. It's flamin' great! Salamander arcade screenshots Sam Fox Strip Poker/Martech (YS6, 8) Samurai/CRL (YS14, 7) Samurai Trilogy/Gremlin (YS23, 7)    A decent stab at bringing two new bash'n'slash simulations to the Speccy, plus yet another Karate game. Samurai Trilogy (YS30, 7)    As part of the 10 Great Games II compilation. Samurai Trilogy (YS34, 5)    As part of the Karate Ace compilation. Samurai Warrior/Firebird (YS35, 9)    Not so much a rabbit stew, but the steak and chips of combat games. Santa's Xmas Caper/Zeppelin (YS73, 14)    Imagine a class of infants making a Christmassy computer game and you'll have a good idea of what this is like. Sanxion/Thalamus (YS42, 71)    Sanxion is slightly annoying but on the whole playable and fairly addictive if you persevere. Satan/Dinamic (YS58, 77)    Quite a good leaping game. A bit naff in places though. Satan (YS72, 54)    As part of the Six Appeal compilation. Satcom/Atlantic (YS22, 7)    A great little hacking game - a fine followup to the excellent Supercom. Savage/Firebird (YS36, 9)    A highly colourful 'three games in one' package in which each of the sub games would merit a release on their own. Savage Island/Tynesoft (YS25, 6) Sbugetti Junction/BugByte (YS10, 8) Scalextric/Leisure Genius (YS15, 8) Scapeghost/Level 9 (YS49, 80) Scary Mansion/Zodiac (YS22, UNR) Sceptre Of Bagdad/Atlantis (YS17, 8) Scooby Doo/Elite (YS11, 9) Scooby Doo And Scrappy Doo/Hi-Tec (YS68, 74)    Nothing new or outstanding, but certainly an improvement on the usual Hi-Tec fare. Scoriasonic Preview (PD)/Jackson Hollis (YS93, 66) Scramble Spirits/Grandslam (YS51, 75)    A monochromatic vertically-scrolling shoot-'em-up with the emphasis very firmly on, erm, aeroplanes. Quite good fun. Scramble arcade screenshots Screen Play/Macmillan (YS3, 7) Seas Of Blood/Adventure International (YS1, UNR) Secret Of Levitation, The/Americana (YS7, 8) Sentinel, The/Firebird (YS18, 9) Sentinel, The (YS35, 9)    As part of the Supreme Challenge compilation. Serf's Tale, The/Players (YS16, 9) Sergeant Seymour (YS84, 90)    As part of the Superstar Seymour compilation. Sergeant Seymour/Codemasters (YS89, 81) Seymour Goes To Hollywood/Codemasters (YS72, 90)    It's Dizzy by another name, but it's brilliant and very, very big! Seymour Goes To Hollywood (YS74, 90)    As part of the Cartoon Collection compilation. Seymour Goes To Hollywood (YS84, 58)    As part of the Superstar Seymour compilation. Shackled/US Gold (YS28, 4)    Disappointing conversion from a passable coin-op game. Similar to Gauntlet and UCM but without the polish or panache of either. One to leave on the shelf. Shackled (YS41, 43)    As part of the Command Performance compilation. Shackled arcade screenshots Shadow Dancer/US Gold (YS66, 85)    Strong beat/shoot-'em-up conversion with a good gimmick (a fighting dog). It works. Shadow Dancer arcade screenshots Shadow Of The Beast/Gremlin (YS60, 88)    Nicely pitched sword-and-sorcery game, mixing beat-'em-up, puzzle solving and arcade adventure. Shadow Of The Beast (YS73, 86)    As part of the Chart Attack compilation. Shadow Of The Unicorn, The/Mikro-Gen (YS1, 7) Shadow Skimmer/The Edge (YS16, 8) Shadow Warriors/Ocean (YS57, 90)    Technically astounding beat-'em-up, full of colour and action (but doesn't need too much skill). Shadow Warriors (YS77, 74)    As part of the 2 Hot 2 Handle compilation. Shadow Warriors arcade screenshots Shadows Of Mordor/Melbourne House (YS20, 8) Shadows Of Mordor (YS49, UNR)    As part of the The Tolkien Trilogy compilation. Shadows Of The Past/Compass (YS58, 80) Shanghai Karate/Players (YS31, 4) Shao-Lin's Road/The Edge (YS14, 8) Shard Of Inovar/Bulldog (YS27, 6) Sharkey's Moll/Zeppelin (YS69, 54)    Uninspired and uninspiring Op Wolf-style shoot-'em-up. Sheriff Gunn (SAM)/Axxent (YS84, 60) Shinobi/Virgin (YS47, 71)    Takes the scrolling beat-'em-up theme and does absolutely nothing whatsoever with it. A good conversion though. Shinobi (YS65, 85)    As part of the Fists Of Fury compilation. Shinobi arcade screenshots Shock (PD)/Kaz and Ziutek of ESI (YS82, 92) Shockway Rider/FTL (YS16, 9) Shockway Rider (YS23, 9)    As part of the Six-Pak Vol 2 compilation. Shoe People, The/Gremlin (YS78, 85)    A big bundle of spanky educational software with a thick coating of cuddly fun. Shoot Out/Martech (YS39, 4)    Bog-standard shooting things with a cursor game. Very, very boring indeed. Short Circuit/Ocean (YS17, 8) Side Arms/Go! (YS29, 6)    Rather disappointing coin-op conversion. Flat graphics are the main problem. Not very inspiring. Sidearms arcade screenshots Sidewalk/Infogrames (YS26, 7)    Not exactly original, but still a cracking game with wonderful graphics! Sidewinder II/Virgin (YS85, 68)    It doesn't matter how old-fashioned games like this are, they're always fun. Sidewize/Firebird (YS22, 9)    Simply superb shoot 'em up with smooth horizontal scroll and innumerable nasties with individual flight patterns. Let me have another go... Sidney Affair, The/Infogrames (YS18, 8) Sigma 7/Durell (YS16, 9) Sigma 7/Encore (YS47, 75) Silent Service/Microprose (YS15, 8) Silent Service/Kixx (YS81, 79) Silicon Dreams/Rainbird (YS15, 9) Silkworm/Virgin (YS43, 90)    Phew! What a spanky little shoot 'em up. Buy it! Silkworm (YS59, 93)    As part of the Edition 1 compilation. Silkworm arcade screenshots Silverwolf/Zenobi (YS80, 90) Sim City/Infogrames (YS56, 93)    The most original, perfectly programmed game of the year. Ignore the graphics - it's a work of total genius! Simpsons - Bart Vs The Space Mutants, The/Ocean (YS72, 92)    It's big, tough and lots of fun. Get it and do the Bartman, right now! Simpsons - Bart Vs The Space Mutants, The (YS86, 83)    As part of the The Dream Team compilation. Sinbad And The Golden Ship/Mastertronic (YS6, 7) Sir Clive's Nightmare (PD)/Killer Klowns (YS93, 79) Sir Fred/Mikro-Gen (YS2, 7) Six Appeal/Ubisoft (YS72, 88) Six-In-One/Tartan (YS19, 8) Six-Pak Vol 2/Hit Pak (YS23, 9) Skate Crazy/Gremlin (YS32, 9)    A beautifully presented and very tricky roller-skating avoid 'em/collect 'em and do lots of stunts 'em up. Great stu%£*D4j. Skate Or Die/Electronic Arts (YS41, 74)    Competent and absorbing new skate sim, but no better than 720° and not as good as Skate Crazy. Skate Wars/Ubisoft (YS57, 69)    Footie on ice, with a fair smattering of violence. Quite good(ish). Skate Wars (YS72, 62)    As part of the The Ultimate Collection compilation. Skateball/Ubisoft (YS38, 8)    Balls of fun for everyone! A good addictive mixture of skill, skating and bash 'em about. Skelvullyn Twine/8th Day (YS30, 8) Skool Daze/2.99 Classics (YS9, 8) Skull And Crossbones/Domark (YS67, 72)    Fun but facile coin-op conversion. A piratical slash-'n'-pick-'em-up with confusing sprites. Skull And Crossbones (YS76, 50)    As part of the TNT II compilation. Skull And Crossbones arcade screenshots Sky High Stuntman/Codemasters (YS72, 80)    An airborne shoot-'em-up with a film theme. Quite nice really. Skyfox/Ariolasoft (YS4, 9) Slaine/Martech (YS25, 9)    With more windows than a small chain of double glazing contractors, Slaine slashes his way through an arcade adventure par excellence! Slap Fight/Imagine (YS21, 9)    A zappin', rappin' fast-moving shoot 'em up. One of the best I've seen, and I've seen lots! Slap Fight arcade screenshots Sleepwalker/Zeppelin (YS81, 75)    It's incredibly good fun for a while, but the game's really a missed opportunity. There's just not enough to do. Slicks (YS88, 74)    As part of the Supersports Challenge compilation. Slightly Magic/Codemasters (YS66, 94) Slightly Magic (YS74, 94)    As part of the Cartoon Collection compilation. Sly Spy Secret Agent/Ocean (YS57, 80)    Clever James Bond parody capturing much of the series' feel, but disappointingly disjointed. Sly Spy Secret Agent/Hit Squad (YS80, 46) Sly Spy Secret Agent arcade screenshots Smash TV/Ocean (YS71, 92)    Sell your family to buy Smash TV. It's the Christmas biggy, all right! Smash TV/Hit Squad (YS87, 91) Smash TV arcade screenshots Snare/Beyond Belief (YS79, 90)    It's simple. It's addictive. Um, that's it really. Snodgits/Creative Sparks (YS8, 7) Snooker Management/Cult (YS71, 19)    Deathly dull sleep-inducing game which is only slightly more fun than having your leg lopped off with a pair of shears. Snoopy/The Edge (YS51, 88)    Excellent rendition of the comic strip, with one or two gameplay glitches but loads of good puzzles. Arcade adventures will lap it up. Snow Queen, The/Mosaic (YS9, 7) Snow Strike/Epyx (YS60, 73)    Part flight sim, part shoot-'em-up, it can't really make its mind up. (Quite well put together though). Snowball (YS15, UNR)    As part of the Silicon Dreams compilation. Soap Land/Zodiac (YS22, UNR) Soccer Boss (YS63, UNR)    As part of the 4-Most Sports compilation. Soccer Challenge (YS75, 78)    As part of the 4-Most Balls, Boots And Brains compilation. Soccer Pinball/Codemasters (YS77, 68)    Colourful but ultimately unsatisfying pinball-'em-up. Soccer Stars/Empire (YS75, 82) Sodov The Sorcerer/BugByte (YS5, 7) Soft And Cuddly/Power House (YS23, 7)    Platformy chaseabout with a difference - warped minds have been at work! Pass the sick bag, Alice! Solar Fire (YS72, 85)    As part of the Action Double compilation. Soldier Of Fortune/Firebird (YS34, 9)    Objects, platforms, mapping, monsters, strategy and atmospheric graphics - all put together in one totally addictive game! Soldier Of Light/Ace (YS31, 4)    A disappointing coin-op conversion from The Edge. Solomon's Key/US Gold (YS23, 9)    The most addictive game of the year, and one of the very few coin-op conversions which is every bit as good as the original. Solomon's Key arcade screenshots Song In Lines 5 Demo (PD)/Busysoft (YS89, 84) Sonic Boom/Activision (YS54, 52)    A dull shoot-'em-up with no outstanding merits. If you like 'em difficult then fine. If not, steer clear. Sophistry/CRL (YS30, 9)    Brillo multi-screen adventure, that proves that there's still life in the old 3-D dog yet (woof howl). Sorcerer Lord/PSS (YS27, 9) Soul Hunter/The Guild (YS82, 80) Soul Of A Robot/Mastertronic (YS2, 6) Souls Of Darkon/BugByte (YS12, 8) Space Ace/Gremlin (YS38, 8)    One of the best compilations around, and great value if you lack the real superstar games. Love it to death! Space Crusade/Gremlin (YS75, 92)    A stonker of a game that'll have you playing for hours. Space Firebirds/Insight (YS1, 6) Space Gun/Ocean (YS76, 62)    A gory giant of a game that's sadly impossible to follow. Space Gun/Hit Squad (YS89, 87) Space Gun arcade screenshots Space Harrier/Elite (YS13, PRE) Space Harrier/Elite (YS15, 9) Space Harrier (YS44, 77)    As part of the The Story So Far Volume II compilation. Space Harrier II/Grandslam (YS49, PRE) Space Harrier II/Grandslam (YS51, 85)    The sequel to Space Harrier. Not awe-inspiring, but hardly disappointing either. Frantic 3D shoot-'em-up action all the way. Space Harrier arcade screenshots Space Hunter/Mastertronic (YS5, 8) Space Invaders arcade screenshots Space Man Muggins/Silverbird (YS31, 5) Spaced Out/Firebird (YS21, 9)    A subtle puzzle game that pits you against alien obstructions as you cross a dotty board in an addictive brain blender. SpecDrum/Cheetah (YS3, UNR) Special Action/Ocean (YS45, 82)    Largely a thinking person's compendium of popular titles. If you don'thave the main games, then it's a veritable barg! Speed King 2/Mastertronic (YS14, 7) Spellbound/Mastertronic (YS10, 9) Spellbound/Mastertronic (YS2, 8) Spellbound Dizzy (YS73, 90)    As part of the Dizzy's Excellent Adventures compilation. Spherical/Rainbow Arts (YS48, 88)    A colourful and challenging game requiring as much mental agility as joystick skill. It's original and it's wizard! (And so are you, funnily enough!) 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. Spike/Firebird (YS8, 6) Spike In Transilvania/Codemasters (YS69, 85)    Another Dizzy-style exploranza, brimming with puzzles and everything else we've come to expect. Spike In Transilvania (YS74, 84)    As part of the Cartoon Collection compilation. Spiky Harold/Firebird (YS7, 8) Spin Dizzy/Electric Dreams (YS7, 9) Spitfire '40/Mirrorsoft (YS4, 9) Spitting Image/Domark (YS39, 6)    Nicely packaged and well executed beat 'em up which would be a birrova goodie if not for the deadly long loading sequences. Splat! (SAM)/Revelation (YS76, 68)    Sweetly simple and horribly playable. You may flip over it. Then again you may not. Splat! (SAM) (YS78, UNR)    As part of the SAM Pack One (SAM) compilation. Split Personalities/Domark (YS8, 9) Spooky Castle (YS75, 21)    As part of the Atlantis Four Game Pack compilation. Sporting Triangles/CDS (YS48, 40)    Thirty minutes of yawnsome TV successfully converted into the same amount of game playing time. Sport triv nutters might want it though. Spy Hunter (YS38, UNR)    As part of the History In The Making compilation. Spy Hunter arcade screenshots Spy Vs Spy - The Island Caper/Databyte (YS19, 7) Spy Who Loved Me, The/Domark (YS59, 76)    Half good/half bad Bond game. There's quite a lot here though, so it's not bad value. Spy Who Loved Me, The (YS74, 61)    As part of the Superheroes compilation. St Dragon/Storm (YS58, PRE) St Dragon/Storm (YS60, 80)    Snazzy shoot-'em-up with some very hard bits and some fairly ordinary ones - but not much in-between. St Dragon/Kixx (YS78, 29) St Dragon arcade screenshots Stack Up/Zeppelin (YS68, 86)    A Tetris rip-off, but a colourful, addictive and extremely entertaining one. (And dirt cheap too.) Stainless Steel/Mikro-Gen (YS10, 6) Star Atlas (SAM) (YS78, 66)    As part of the SAM Pack One (SAM) compilation. Star Control/Accolade (YS64, 85)    A bit of a split personality, this one. The strategy bit is a trifle limited, but the combat stuff's brill. Star Firebirds/Firebird (YS10, 8) Star Paws/Software Projects (YS29, 8)    A jolly little game owing more than a passing resemblance to Road Runner. At budget price worth the spondies. Star Raiders II/Electric Dreams (YS18, 8) Star Runner/Codemasters (YS18, 8) Star Wars/Domark (YS26, 8)    An excellent conversion of the arcade machine. Darth Vader eat your heart out! Star Wars (YS46, 80)    As part of the Star Wars Trilogy compilation. Star Wars (YS57, 63)    As part of the Heroes compilation. Star Wars Trilogy/Domark (YS46, 84)    Not bad at all even if it does cost more than you usually have to pay for a compilation. A must if you haven't already got the games. Star Wars arcade screenshots Star-Wreck/Alternative (YS24, 6) Starglider (YS35, 8)    As part of the Supreme Challenge compilation. Starring Charlie Chaplin/US Gold (YS31, 7)    Original vehicle for a knock-em-down. The vehicle's great, shame the action doesn't match up. Nice try. Starship Quest/FSF (YS56, 70) Starstrike II/Real Time Software (YS6, 9) Steg/Codemasters (YS84, 90)    Steg is a fine game, in fact it's a right little charmer! Steve Davis Snooker (YS38, UNR)    As part of the Game Set And Match II compilation. Stifflip And Co/Palace (YS22, 9)    Adventuring for adventurers, arcadies, anyone. hilarious and stylish, only the too-complex combat system lets it down. Stir Crazy/Infogrames (YS50, 58)    Five independent sub-games all starring an obscure Belgian comic character. Quite well executed in their way but small and short-lived. Stormbringer/Mastertronic (YS19, 9) Stormlord/Hewson (YS42, 93)    Another stormer from Raffaelle Cecco. Buy it! Stormlord (YS56, 92)    As part of the Cecco's Collection compilation. Story So Far Volume II, The/Elite (YS44, 79)    A good compilation and great value. Elite may not have done much for the Speccy lately, but this final bow spells a sad day for Spec-chums. Story So Far Volume IV, The/Elite (YS48, 57)    Six old and worn games bundled together in one pack. The only redeeming games are Wonderboy and Ghostbusters. Streaker/Bulldog (YS23, 7)    Useful little Spellbound clone with nice animation plus a touch of originality in the plot. Excellent value. Street Fighter/Go! (YS31, 8)    A first-class beat'em up with loadsa action and totally faithful to the original. Brilliant! Street Fighter II/US Gold (YS87, 62)    Twenty minutes of loading for five minutes of play? The unforgivably poor loader has basically ruined a Megagame. Street Fighter II arcade screenshots Street Fighter arcade screenshots Street Hassle/Melbourne House (YS27, 7)    Beat 'em up with a lora lorra laffs. Great animation of excellent characters (if norra lot else). Street Hawk/Ocean (YS12, 5) Strider/US Gold (YS47, 90)    Brilliant looking, smooth playing platform and ladders leap 'em up with a neat main character. There could be more in it, but what's there is excellently done. Strider (YS62, 89)    As part of the Platinum compilation. Strider II/US Gold (YS61, 87)    Bigger, better, more colourful sequel to Strider, though perhaps a bit too similar to the original to be a Megagame. Strider II (YS74, 70)    As part of the Superheroes compilation. Strider arcade screenshots Strike/Mastertronic (YS19, 7) Strike Force Cobra/Piranha (YS11, 9) Strike Force Cobra (YS63, UNR)    As part of the 4-Most Action compilation. Strike Force Harrier/Mirrorsoft (YS11, 8) Stunt Car Racer/MicroStyle (YS47, 93)    A gasp-a-minute, vertigo-inducing, solid-filled-vector-graphics road-racing game. The Speccy's processing speed has coped admirably (again) with a 'downgraded' 16 bit game. Stunt Car Racer (YS72, 85)    As part of the The Ultimate Collection compilation. Stuntman Seymour (YS84, 65)    As part of the Superstar Seymour compilation. Subbuteo/Electronic Zoo (YS59, 81)    A different but enjoyable appraoch to footie, and a funnier old game than most. Subculture/Mastertronic (YS9, 8) Subterranean Nightmare/Americana (YS9, 8) Summer Games (YS35, UNR)    As part of the Gold Silver And Bronze compilation. Summer Games II (YS35, UNR)    As part of the Gold Silver And Bronze compilation. Summer Santa/Alpha Omega (YS9, 4) Super Cycle/US Gold (YS15, 5) Super Cycle (YS38, UNR)    As part of the History In The Making compilation. Super Fighter/Ocean (YS86, 35) Super G-Man/Codemasters (YS21, 5)    Cheap and cheerful Jet Pac style game. Nothing new here, but worth the pennies - just. Super Hang On/Electric Dreams (YS26, 8)    An engine growling race game with all the payability of the original. First class! Super Hang On (YS38, UNR)    As part of the Game Set And Match II compilation. Super Hang On arcade screenshots Super Monaco Grand Prix/US Gold (YS65, 82)    One of the better 3D race games, although a couple of gripes knock it down a bit. Super Nova/Players (YS24, 7)    Another 'collect the objects' game, similar to many others, but with some interesting and clever features. Good value. Super Robin Hood/Codemasters (YS19, 6) Super Robin Hood (YS58, UNR)    As part of the Quattro Adventure compilation. Super Scramble Simulator/Gremlin (YS43, 80)    BBC's Kick Start on the Speccy. Quite a challenging and fun Trials Riding game with barrels of addictiveness hiding behind its slightly unpolished visual exterior. Vrooooooom! Super Seymour/Codemasters (YS75, 86)    One you'll keep coming back to again and again (if you can tear yourself away in the first place, that is). Super Seymour (YS84, 79)    As part of the Superstar Seymour compilation. Super Soccer/Imagine (YS15, 8) Super Space Invaders/Domark (YS73, 88)    Jolly good show, Domark. Pity some of the screens are quite impossible to clear, eh? Super Space Invaders arcade screenshots Super Sprint/Electric Dreams (YS24, 5)     In terms of racing games this is an old banger. For addicts of the original only. Super Sprint arcade screenshots Super Stuntman/Codemasters (YS28, 7)    Thrills, spills, excitement and a clapperboard too. Terrific fun for would-be stuntmen everywhere. Super Wonderboy/Activision (YS49, 75)    A souped-up version of Wonderboy, which improves on much of the original in theory but at a slight cost to gameplay. Superbowl (YS38, UNR)    As part of the Game Set And Match II compilation. Superbowl/Ocean (YS7, 6) Supercars/Gremlin (YS61, 88)    Fairly simple but perfectly executed Super Sprint clone - which scrolls! Excellent fun! Supercars (YS73, 86)    As part of the Chart Attack compilation. Supercup Football (YS52, 30)    As part of the 4th Dimension compilation. Superheroes/Domark (YS74, 70) Superkid (YS75, 74)    As part of the Atlantis Four Game Pack compilation. Superleague Soccer/Impressions (YS57, 52)    A different type of footie game, but unfortunately it's crap. Supersports Challenge/Codemasters (YS88, 81)    Cue Boy is ace International Speedway isn't. The rest is dandy enough and worth your pennies, especially Cue Boy. Superstar Seymour/Codemasters (YS84, 68)    £13 is a lot to pay for such short-term playability. Get Sgt on budget instead. Superted/Alternative (YS90, 62)    For such and embarrassing licence, the game's not to bad (curses). Supreme Challenge/Beau Jolly (YS35, 9)    One of the best compilations of recent months, with some of the best games of recent years. If you don't have these - buy buy buy! Surfchamp/New Concept (YS2, 7) Surprise Demo (SAM) (PD)/ESI (YS87, 70) Survivor/US Gold (YS22, 6) Survivor (YS37, 3)    As part of the 10 Great Games III compilation. Survivors/Atlantis (YS14, 6) Sweevo's World/Gargoyle (YS3, 9) Switchblade/Gremlin (YS63, 92)    Blimming huge and downright excellent platform arcade adventure. It bites and won't let go. Switchblade/GBH (YS74, 93) Sword And Shield/Power House (YS26, 4) Sword Of The Samurai/Zeppelin (YS83, 72)    Four quid can't buy you much these days, so why not spend it on a game that'll keep you happy for a while. Swords And Sorcery/PSS (YS2, 7) Swords Of Bane/CCS (YS13, 7)