To boldly go where no Amiga mascot has gone before

When Beavermania takes the world by storm, no Amiga is left unchewed! Mrs Beaver, wife of pop-mega-star, Jethro Beaver, has been kidnapped by rival band, the Rappin' Rabbit Rockers. By way of retort, our options include dissolving the group in exchange for our wife's safe return, or traipsing through six death-defying wilderness landscapes, tail-spinning bunny riff-raff into orbit, while attempting to stay one step ahead of the encroaching, auto-scrolling screen.

Collecting charisma stars in-game seems a bit redundant given that Beavers already oozes feel-good vibes owing to its austere, yet adorably cute visuals and endearing introductory animation. Whether that's enough to sustain its appeal, substantiating longevity is debatable.

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The pantomime must go on

Ocean's first WWF wrestling game wasn't exactly fantastic, yet merits a nostalgic, reality-blurring pass if it happens to represent your earliest experience with pixelated wrestling hijinks. A year later, lessons learnt and improvements made, with the advent of European Rampage Tour, all bets were off. It's the tag-team upgrade that should have kicked Wrestlemania into the dirt, mashing its brains to mush with a stainless steel folding chair. Instead, somehow, European Rampage manages to look inferior and be less fun to play. It's enough to make a federation of global wrestlers change their name to distance themselves from the sullied hobby.

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Grab a seat. Enjoy the show. This is history.

Ten years on from the first Predator movie, the sequel's setting is dramatically shifted from the steamy Mexican jungle to LA suburbia. Arnie is nowhere to be seen so the future of humanity rests in the capable hands of disgruntled, veteran cop, Danny Glover. His normal routine revolving around nailing viciously unscrupulous Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels must be put on hold when the Predator, a technologically advanced alien hunter, puts in an appearance to terrorise the already underfire city.

Whilst nowhere near matching the success of the first movie, Predator 2 returned a moderate box office profit. Therefore was considered sufficiently popular to spawn an accompanying multi-format video game courtesy of Arc Developments. It's a cross-hair targeting shooter played in third-person mode given that we see our protagonist, Lieutenant Michael R. Harrigan, onscreen as a wireframe sprite. Whilst cleaning up the streets of LA en route to the Predator's ship we must sustain our armour by collecting top-ups and upgrade weaponry to improve our chances as the difficulty level escalates.

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The fifth prime directive

Assuming the role of the last surviving model of the mechanised Wolverine ED-209-alikes, it's our duty to rid the polluted New York streets of merciless Scavengers. Set in 2067, obviously, apocalypse is afoot in Arc Developments' multi-system arcade platformer-shoot 'em. Published in 1991 by Image Works (aka Mirrorsoft), Robozone was lucky to break loose from the Robert Maxwell debacle that led other games financed under the same label to plummet into obscurity along with the duplicitous shark at the top of the food chain.

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