Reviews

A very simple basic game for teaching arithmetic to young children, which came bundled with our spectrum.
I was about the target age for this at the time, and did spend some time playing it. The player could choose a difficulty level, and was then given some simple sums to complete. If enough sums were answered correctly, then the player got a chance to shoot a ufo as it flew over - providing motivation / reward for the task.
Having played this at such an impressionable age, I have no doubt that it helped me get comfortable doing basic arithmetic. It also provided a great education, in the same way as all of the Collins starter programs, by giving my 4 year old self the chance to nose around and modify the basic listing of the program. Great stuff. It is a shame that young children are rarely presented with such things these days, the assumption being that 'computer code' would be something to learn later in life. Learning a computer language is a task that can, and was, done virtually by accident by many of our generation. It is readily accepted that young children will master their amazingly complicated native language, yet concepts like programming, which are far simpler, are deemed unsuitable.