Five educational games for the small sum of only £6.95 seems to be too good to be true - and it is! The educational value of most of the games on this tape is very low, and most of them are old standards in a "not particularly new" guise. Having said that, they are undoubtedly well error-trapped and fun.

In the first game (Count) you have to count the number of letters on the screen as quickly as possible, and you are praised or corrected as required. You are also told if you are getting faster or slower, though I cannot really see why.

Mixer could have been called Anagrams, for such it is.

Calculator gets the prize for the least useful program. It simply takes two numbers, performs the selected operation, and gives you the answer. A one-line Basic program could do that, without the fancy colour and sound though.

Starship is a hangman variant, with good graphics and clues for the slower student, and is probably the best of this bunch of offerings.

Codebreaker is exactly that. A code (letter/letter) is set up, and then words or sentences encoded and decoded as you choose. Not the most educational activity ever devised, but with some value and fun.

D.C.