CHOPPER bikes, Oxford shirts, Grolsch beer bottle shoe accessories and pseudo-goth/glam music are all part of the dodgy 80's memories I have - along with that mean machine, the Atari 2600 games console.

I clearly remember days of Thatcher-enhanced gloom avoiding reality for hours on end with that ridiculous little joystick (which the rubber cover always fell off) banging Space Invaders out of our universe.

I also remember being a large yellow Pac-Man prancing around endless mazes munching dots and eating pills' while avoiding ghosts or chomping them.

Sadly, you'll have to look elsewhere to find these two classic gems, because they are not on here.

However, you will find around 85 other games, including reconstructions of the arcade classics Asteroids, Missile Command, Centipede and Pong.

You will also find 67 Atari 2600 games including Yar's Revenge, Gravitar, Super Breakout and Adventure.

Despite the presentation of this compilation, you really do notice the absence of the aforementioned classics and would, if they were here, probably spend hours once more in a retro paradise.

As it stands, you will spend some time playing Missile Command, laugh about Pong and maybe shoot some Asteroids and, if you're a minimalist kind of girl or boy, stick the retro' box in a prominent place in your front room because it's cool.

Don't expect the memories of what these games were like at the time you first played them (20 years ago?) to actually make them seem any good now, since you've been playing GTA: San Andreas, Onimusha 3 and Medal of Honour.

Generally, it's a great idea to stick a compilation out like this but you can't help thinking it's been thought out well as far as it being a money-spinner. Because it will be.

The graphics are atrocious, the sound is less than basic, and the gameplay is, generally, appalling. The lifespan of this product is very limited - unlike the Atari 2600 which still captures our attention for what it achieved and what it gave birth to; Playstations, Xboxes and Gamecubes!

Overall: 2.5/5