Boxing game with very limited action.

Would this be like one of my all-time favourite arcade games, Punch-Out?! Er, no. This is a very, very simple boxing game.

It outs you in the ring to face either a friend or computer opponent. You view the ring at rope level with the boxers being shown in profile. At the start of each of the four one-minute rounds the boxer are placed in their respective corners. When the bell sounds they move out and you take control of one of them. You can move your man forwards and backwards only, making this effectively a 2D game.

You hit your opponent by pressing the fire button and moving the joystick either left or right for left or right hook. If you want to put your guard up then press fire button and push up. There are no other actions possible: no body blows, no ducking.

As you hit your opponent you will see a bar increasing above his corner. When this grows to its full extent and reaches the KO mark your next hit will knock him out and win you the game. But the rate at which the bar grows depends on his stamina which alters from game to game.

The idea of the game is to win the World Heavyweight title. First you have to win the European Heavyweight title be beating the computer opponent three times - each time you challenge him he gets harder to beat. Having done this, you are given a password and you have to load the other side of the cassette.

To win the world title you go through exactly the same rigmarole as the European title fights, but if at the end of the third round, if you have a knockout win you're given the title of Heavyweight Champion of the World.

This game is graphically very impressive but soound, like the gameplay, is highly disappointing: only a good bell sound and a whop as a boxer is hit.