Ten of the best: Educational Programs is another compendium of games for BBC Micro. This compilation contains a bunch of educational games. The collection was released as both a tape and a disk with a copy of the Eletctron User magazine.
Hangman is a word-guessing game. The player must try to guess the word that the computer randomly chose, letter by letter. On each incorrect letter the player can opt to draw a picture of his current state.
The Wizard of Id's WizType is an edutainment title based on the comic strip created by artist Brant Parker and writer Johnny Hart. The title is designed to give keyboard novices lessons on how to improve their typing accuracy and speed. The game is broken into two sections: The first section pits players as the Wiz, matching wits against the Evil Spirit, an apparition that lives in the Wizard's vat. The Wizard must quickly type out the words that the Evil Spirit gives him in order to diminish the Spirit and win the round. Failure to spell words properly, or taking too long to spell results in the Evil Spirit morphing into a dragon, and singing the Wizard to a crisp. The second part of the game has the player trying to keep up with Bung the Jester. In this segment, players must type out a pre-written paragraph in order to keep pace with Bung, who is hopping along the words on a pogo stick. WizType has multiple skill levels to match different levels of typing ability, and increases in challenge as players progress th
3-2-1 was a popular quiz show in the UK during the 1980’s. The game was only available via mail-order from a company called Micro Computer Incorporated, and gave you the chance to win lots of prizes just the like real thing. The star prize being a week’s holiday in Spain.
A political strategy game based on a General Election in British politics and the aim is for one to four players to get a party into Government.
Each player starts with £8000 and they must visit as many constituencies from a choice of 60 and canvas for votes.
At the start of the game after how many turns are to be played, each player starts at a random constituency and the first player is shown how many people plan to vote for each of the parties. The player then decides how much to spend on their campaign before the next players constituency is shown.