In the TV series, contestants from four teams faced gruelling land and sea challenges and assault courses, and it's the same here. After choosing which country you want to be (Great Britain, the USA, Holland or Australasia), you're given a random selection of events to tackle. In the land and sea races, it's a matter of steering your boat or vehicle round the track, but the assault course (also known as 'the hill') is an arm-busting, joystick-waggling frenzy. It's a nice game, although some events (e.g. meteors) will take time to be mastered. The graphics are great as well.

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Rating: 8/10

Rygar is on a mission to defeat an evil tyranny, battling through ten stages in this horizontally scrolling platform game. All the usual assortment of aliens and monsters are there, and most of them can fly. However, you'll have to jump over waterfalls and chasms a lot as well, although it is possible to bounce on monsters' heads. Stones also appear out of the ground, and shooting them will reveal one of several types of bonus. The graphics are pretty good although they're not terribly sophisticated, and during each stage, there's no time to relax at all – but fortunately, the game isn't all that difficult. And as for the music, it's also excellent, and strangely familiar...

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Rating: 8/10