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TNT/Domark (YS58, 84)    Nothing alarmingly good, but a solid, dependable compilation all the same. TNT II/Domark (YS76, 49) TT Racer/Digital Integration (YS11, 9) Tai Chi Tortoise/Zeppelin (YS73, 80)     Play this game and feel strangely protective towards cheese for the rest of your life. Tai-Pan/Ocean (YS20, 9)    A splendid original strategy game with arcade phases. Brilliant fun. So clever, so complex, so buy it! Tank Assault (YS72, 91)    As part of the Action Double compilation. Tantalus/Quicksilva (YS7, 9) Tapper arcade screenshots Target Renegade/Ocean (YS31, 9)    Graphically yum-yum, deliciously playable, succulently addictive - a game connoisseurs delight. Target Renegade (YS40, UNR)    As part of the The In Crowd compilation. Tarot/Psychic Software (YS6, 5) Tarzan/Martech (YS15, 7) Tasword III/Tasman (YS6, UNR) Tau-Ceti/CRL (YS1, 9) Tears Of The Moon, The/Zenobi (YS83, 60) Technocop/Gremlin (YS38, 8)    Suprisingly addictive mix of racing simulation and scrolling shoot 'em up, both well programmed and presented. A welcome return to form for Gremlin. Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles/Mirrorsoft (YS61, 90)    A jolly colourful platform-and-ladders romp - simple but fast and very professionally put together. Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin-Op/Mirrorsoft (YS72, 89)    I predict that this great Turtles game will be quite popular, even though nobody's ever heard of them! Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Coin-Op arcade screenshots Tempest/Electric Dreams (YS15, 7) Tempest arcade screenshots Temple Of Terror, The/US Gold (YS20, 7) Tennis/Imagine (YS11, 6) Terminator II/Ocean (YS71, 88)    Arnie strikes back! It's big, it's fun and it's one for your collection. (It's also dead hard.) Terminator II (YS86, 65)    As part of the The Dream Team compilation. Terra Cognita/Codemasters (YS14, 7) Terra Cognita (YS68, UNR)    As part of the Quattro Firepower compilation. Terra Cresta/Imagine (YS15, 7) Terra Cresta arcade screenshots Terramex/Grandslam (YS27, 9)    Cracking arcade adventure fresh from the kreative keyboards of Those Who Made Monty. An auspicious start for Grand Slam. Terror Of The Deep/Mirrorsoft (YS17, 8) Terrorpods/Psygnosis (YS32, 7)    Skillful conversion from 16 bit smash hit. Gameplay is fast, animation and graphics good, but lacks a certain flash of brilliance. Terrors Of Trantoss, The/Ariolasoft (YS6, 9) Tetris/Mirrorsoft (YS28, 9)    An original and very, very playable puzzle game from the freezing Steppes of Mother Russia. A future number one or I'll eat a Pot Noodle! Tetris (YS35, 9)    As part of the Supreme Challenge compilation. Tetris arcade screenshots Thanatos/Durell (YS13, 9) The Empire Strikes Back arcade screenshots The New Zealand Story arcade screenshots The Real Ghostbusters arcade screenshots Theatre Europe/PSS (YS8, 8) Their Finest Hour/Century Communications (YS3, 9) They Call Me Trooper/CRL (YS13, 8) They Stole A Million/Ariolasoft (YS13, 9) Thing/Players (YS30, 8)    Superb quality budget gear. Thoroughly playable 'collect and connect' game from the author of Joe Blade. A must buy. Thing Bounces Back/Gremlin (YS20, 9)    Puts new life in an old genre by being jam-packed with devious features. Whatever the thing is - this has got it! Thing Bounces Back (YS30, 9)    As part of the 10 Great Games II compilation. Thingy And The Doodahs/Americana (YS11, 6) Think/Ariolasoft (YS2, 7) Three Weeks In Paradise/Mikro-Gen (YS2, 9) Throne Of Fire/Melbourne House (YS18, 8) Through The Trap Door/Piranha (YS25, 8)    Well hard arcade adventure with the Don Priestly signature all over it. Fans will lap it up. Through The Trap Door (YS63, UNR)    As part of the Trap Door Collection compilation. Thrust/Firebird (YS12, 8) Thrust II/Firebird (YS17, 9) Thunder Blade/US Gold (YS38, 9)    Brilliant scrolling and graphics combine to make an excellent shoot 'em up and faithful conversion from the coin-op. Thunderbirds/Firebird (YS1, 6) Thunderbirds/Grandslam (YS43, 85)    One of the best arcade adventures for a long time. Great graphics, tricky puzzles, and all your fave Thunderbirds characters too. Thundercats/Elite (YS25, 9)    Tastier than a can of Kitty-Kat, more playful than a kitten, it's an unashamed sweat-inducing beat 'em up with bags of style and fantastic graphics. Thundercats (YS38, 8)    As part of the Fists 'n' Throttles compilation. Thunderceptor/US Gold (YS24, 8)    Trigger-happy Ernieware shoot 'em up that'll blister your trigger finger - or I'm a Dutchman! Thunderjaws arcade screenshots Tiger Road/Go! (YS37, 6)    Routine horizontal scrolling basher and jumper, nothing new but pretty graphics. Tiger Road arcade screenshots Tilt/Codemasters (YS62, 88) Tilt/Linel (YS78, 30)    The atrocious controls kill the game stone dead. I'm sorry, but they just do. Time And Magik/Mandarin (YS31, 9) Time Flies/Firebird (YS31, 3) Time Machine, The/Vivid Image (YS58, 91)    A completely different yet completely brilliant number. Hurrah! Time Of The End/Mandarin (YS10, 3) Time Scanner/Activision (YS44, 91)    A splendid, realistic pinball simulation, a trifle limited in game size, but eminently playable. Time Scanner arcade screenshots Times Of Lore/Origin (YS43, 91)    Gigantic fantasy role playing extravaganza with a neat control system and sound graphics. Brill. Tintin On The Moon/Infogrames (YS49, 80)    A lovingly crafted arcade adventure that's both playable and addictive. Suffers from smallness of game size and lack of difficulty. Titan/Titus (YS45, 75)    Take a bit of Breakout, a pinch of Arkanoid and a touch of the Battys, add some fairly original twists and serve. A very playable little concoction. Titanic Blinky/Zeppelin (YS73, 88)    If you don't get Titanic Blinky you'll be all adrift in the New Year. Toadrunner/Ariolasoft (YS8, 7) Tobruk/PSS (YS18, 8) Toki arcade screenshots Tolkien Trilogy, The/Beau Jolly (YS49, 90) Tomahawk/Digital Integration (YS1, 9) Toobin'/Domark (YS49, 60)    Strangely unenjoyable and suspiciously budgety looking arcade conversion. We usually like simple games, but we didn't go much for this one. Toobin' (YS58, 59)    As part of the TNT compilation. Toobin'/Hit Squad (YS70, 82) Toobin' arcade screenshots Toot 'n' Come In (YS78, UNR)    As part of the Peneless + Toot 'n' Come In compilation. Toot'n'Come In/Epsilon (YS22, UNR) Top Cat (YS74, 30)    As part of the The Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Character Collection compilation. Top Gun/Ocean (YS15, 8) Total Eclipse/Incentive (YS37, 9)    Yet another Freescape game from Incentive. These people just seem streets ahead of the competition. Total Eclipse (YS69, 92)    As part of the Virtual Worlds compilation. Total Recall/Ocean (YS63, 84)    A great game, but not quite as big as 'Big' Arnie himself. (It's not too easy either.) Total Recall (YS77, 79)    As part of the 2 Hot 2 Handle compilation. Total Recall/Hit Squad (YS82, 76) Tour De Force/Gremlin (YS27, 7)    Pedal powered arcade game that's a cross between Milk Race and Mean Streak - and better than both. Toyota Celica GT Rally/Gremlin (YS64, 90)    Very smart little racing game - handsome to look at, fun to drive and fast, fast, fast! Track And Field (YS38, UNR)    As part of the Game Set And Match II compilation. Trackmaster/Destiny (YS37, 8)    A maze game merged with a few shoot 'em up moments and logic problems which will have me, for one, going back for more. Pretty good stuff. Tracksuit Manager/Goliath (YS33, 8)    One of the best football strategy games yet. Fast action, tough decisions and huge databases of info on the world's footballers. Firmly in the first division! Tracksuit Manager (YS55, 78)    As part of the World Cup Year '90 Compilation compilation. Trailblazer/Gremlin (YS12, 9) Train: Escape To Normandy, The/Accolade (YS34, 7)    Naff shoot 'em up sections, but the train driving simulation and atmosphere more than makes up for them. Transformers/Ocean (YS3, 6) Trantor/Go! (YS24, 9)    An original and brilliantly programmed shoot 'em up, with more action than the average joystick can comfortably cope with! Trantor (YS38, UNR)    As part of the Space Ace compilation. Trantor (YS41, 83)    As part of the Command Performance compilation. Tranz-Am (YS33, UNR)    As part of the Ultimate: The Collected Works compilation. Trap/Alligata (YS16, 8) Trap Door/Piranha (YS10, 9) Trap Door (YS63, UNR)    As part of the Trap Door Collection compilation. Trap Door Collection/Alternative (YS63, 92) Treasure Hunt/Macsen (YS7, 7) Treasure Island/Zenobi (YS72, 80) Triaxos/39 Steps (YS21, 6)    More 3D mapping-and-zapping with a couple of neat touches, but mainly it's business as usual. Triltex - The Later Levels (SAM)/FRED (YS77, 84)    Triltex fans will need no holding back, but be warned - this game is hard. Trio/Hit-Pak (YS20, 8)    Sampler of games that wouldn't stand alone but are quite fun together. But you might do better with three budget games. Trivia/Grandslam (YS49, 62)    Yep - it's a trivia game, nothing bad, nothing special. Really for the more brainy and mature among us. (Like me!) Trivial Pursuit - Young Players Edition/Domark (YS14, 7) Trivial Pursuit/Domark (YS11, 8) Trivial Pursuit Baby Boomer Edition/Domark (YS18, 6) Trivial Pursuits - A New Beginning/Domark (YS37, 8)    A reworking of the Triv computer game from scratch, which gives you more game and less bored. Good fun. Tujad/Ariolasoft (YS10, 7) Turbo Esprit (YS13, UNR)    As part of the Big Four compilation. Turbo Esprit/Durell (YS6, 9) Turbo OutRun/US Gold (YS50, 70)    A disappointing sequel to the original rolling-road racing coin-op. Much better than the original OutRun, but hardly the best of the current driving games. Turbo OutRun (YS60, 70)    As part of the Wheels Of Fire compilation. Turbo The Tortoise/Hi-Tec (YS79, 94)    Jumpy, spinny, leapy frolicsome joy, which leaves one feeling 'pletely happy. Turrican/Rainbow Arts (YS56, 92)    Massive and spectacular shoot-'em-up, though it does lack a bit of character. Still, buy it! Turrican (YS66, 90)    As part of the Power Up compilation. Turrican II/Rainbow Arts (YS69, 92)    Enormous multi-scrolling shooter, with bags of playability. What more could you want?! Tusker/System 3 (YS48, 82)    System 3 back on track with an Indyesque game in the Last Ninja II vein. Smaller in size than Ninja, but with tons more colour and just as puzzling. Twin Turbo V8 (YS57, UNR)    As part of the Quattro Power compilation. Twin World/Ubisoft (YS58, 77)    A straightforward but extremely enjoyable little number which grows on you until it almost bursts. Twin World (YS72, 90)    As part of the Six Appeal compilation. Twister/System 3 (YS4, 7) Typhoon/Imagine (YS36, 7)    Fast and furious, but contains very little to make it outstanding.