Spacewreck is designed for younger children and is released by Premier Software. This has been written by Primary School Teachers, it's aim being to motivate creative writing. Expecting something of real educational value, I approached this program eagerly, but I was sadly disappointed.

This is a "...computer designed adventure with visual stimulus and words to help the child. Using these, the children are asked to write a story based upon their adventure." Unfortunately, this has been very poorly written and I can see little, if any, value in it as an educational program. Compared with current Spectrum programs, the graphics here are very poor and very slow!

Graphics blocks move jerkily across the scren and there has been no attempt to use UDGs (capital letters being used to represent people and monsters). There was also a serious bug in the review copy, the 'adventure' forming a repeating loop after about ten minutes. Premier Software offer a marking and assessment service for £1.50, but any teacher who needs to rely on programs such as this in order to motivate children probably shouldn't be teaching at all! The whole program needs to be re-evaluated and re-designed.