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Five educational games for only £6.95 seems 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 standbys in a not-so-new guise.

The package comprises one long program with a menu from which you move onto the various games.

In the first game, Count, you have to count the number of letters on the screen as quickly as possible.

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

Calculator is an adding-type game where you add the flashing number to your previous total. Pretty boring.

Starship is a Hangman variant in which an alien is trying to destroy your starship and gets one bomb for every wrong answer. Fair graphics and clues for the slower student.

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, but quite fun.

Fun to learn is not, as it claims, "A comprehensive teaching program" - I doubt it such a package will ever exist.

D.C.