Eddie Kidd Jump Challenge (Martech)

The game gets very boring after a short time - I even recruited a few children to play it and they felt the same.

Football Manager (Addictive)

It really is a very gripping game as you battle through, plagued by injuries and financial worries, but the joy of that lap of honour round the living-room after you've thrashed Spurs 5-0 in the Cup Final makes it worthwhile.

Very Basic Basic Electron (Century)

A useful book for the beginner who wants to learn programming, at a very reasonable price.

Maths Topics 2 (Netherhall)

All the programs are well designed, robust and useful as a point-of-teaching aid and for revision.

Computer Aided Design And Manufacture I: Intersecting Cylinders (Microelectronics Educational Development Centre)

If this package were introduced halfway through a project involving intersecting cylinders, I don't think the students would need to be told how useful CAD can be.

Number Painter (ASK)

A splendid program with excellent graphics - and children actually want to use it!

Pole Position (Atarisoft)

All in all, a very well written program - all it lacks are cars passing you, as on the arcade version, but that has a little more memory and power behind it!

Space Station Alpha (Icon)

Icon has come up with quite an addictive 'annihilate the nasties' game, with fair but slightly flickery graphics.

Mr. Ee (Micro Power)

The whole program is very well written, a delight to play, and, I'm sure, a bestseller for the Beeb.

Castle Quest (Micro Power)

While not jumping into Elite's shoes, Castle Quest follows closely in its footsteps, and although not cheap it's certainly worth buying.

BBC Micro B Starter Pack (Collins)

Works at a sensible pace, provides a useful, well-structured introduction to Basic and its lively, sympathetic approach should appeal to the BBC Micro owner who wants to learn to program.

Beginners' Basic (Windward)

I do not feel this book would inspire the beginner with confidence and enthusiasm. The style is rather dry and lacking imagination, the screen print-outs do not always look the same as in the book, and there are no sections to deal with individual machines and their differences.