FORGET all those new computer shoot 'em ups and take a step back into the world of historic console games.

The creaky old games consoles of the seventies and eighties have become fashionable of late, lending credibility to many an advert, album sleeve or T-shirt print designed to tap into this lucrative market.

The Classic Gaming site (www.classicgaming.com) will take you back to the days of the Atari and show you how to build you own arcade machine.

It is great fun to play some of the true greats, Q*bert, Pitfall and Joust. It takes me back.