Reviews

1984 Sinclair Research (UK)
by Psion team & the A.S.K. team

This game deserved more recognition. If you look at the WOS rating you see it's high and with few votes. That's because the game is labelled as just an educational one, so people tend to avoid it, or think it's just for kids, it's not. In fact besides educational, it's also an action game. You move around a platform environment filled with ladders and gaps, a bit like a construction site. You collect numbers in order to come to a specific result determined by the computer. And it's not all that hard, totally playable for younger kids as well as grown ups. It requires a bit of mental calculation along with some attention to where you're moving. Presentation is also quite good.
A little known gem.

Great little game. Kind of educational, but fun, and full of early Speccy charm - in the same way as "Micromouse Goes Debugging".
Nothing complicated or too fancy. Just a well executed little platform game involving some simple arithmetic, with it's own quirky gameplay and details, all done with gentle humour.

A very interesting educational program by Psion Software, published by Sinclair Research in 1984.

It's a simple idea: mix arithmetics and plattforms and the result is this cute game. We're in a plattform & ladders screen where there are many pink boxes with numbers (+ -, and in higher levels, * and / ) spread along the screen. In a limited time, we start with a certain score and we must reach the target number by picking up the pink boxes. If we have a score of, say, 25, and pick up a +5 box, now we have a score of 30. If we get a -1 box, we have now a score of 29. We must reach the target number in a limited time.

A very original game, useful even knowadays for kids in order to learn arithmetics in a funny way.