You know those little hand-held puzzles that involve sliding plastic squares about
until you restore a pattern? You know also those card or paper puzzles called
tangrams, or something?
Yes, of course you do. So too do NRG who have produced a collection of such puzzles
to play on your computer. Quite why, I'm not too sure. The puzzles are fun enough
but the graphics are so geometric that there's no real involvement in the solving of
them.
As a bonus there are some bizarre graphical illusions as well - all quite fun, all
quite nice, all quite cheap but I'm sorry, I can't really see a market for this kind
of release. It reminds me of nothing more than the host of educational material that
appears for the Beeb some years back when schools bought anything for their
computers that sounded vaguely educational.
1st December 1987
