Home Computing Weekly


Body Swop

Author: B.B.
Publisher: Macmillan/Sinclair Research
Machine: Spectrum 48K

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #95

This particular program is aimed at a very narrow age group, children between 5 and 8 years old, albeit there might be a lot of them. There are three parts to the program: look, spell, and boggle. The main object is to get a child to understand six words: ear, eye, leg, head, body and tail. If the first part, six animals demonstrate the different parts of the body which the words represent.

After each demonstration the child can participate by choosing the correct part out of the six displayed. This is done by pressing any key when the appropriate word is outlined.

Spell is the second part. This is where the bodyswop comes in. Each animal is shown twice on the screen. One of the animals is correct in every detail and the other has a part missing, or a part of another animal. The child has to type in the name of the missing part, either from a requested list, or from memory.

The final part is a one or two player game called Boggle. Each child either accepts or rejects a part of the boggle when it is offered them.

I didn't think that the program was very user-friendly and the rewards were meagre.

B.B.

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