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Here
and There With the Mr. Men
1985 Mirrorsoft
Programmed
by Primer Educational Software
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text of the present article comes from the feature on
educational programs by Gary Penn, as published in the
eighth issue of the British C64 magazine ZZAP!64 (December
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HERE
AND THERE WITH THE MR MEN
Mirrorsoft, £8.95 cass
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Turning
from the American inspired programs (although purists
would of course insist that Winnie is 'ours' and not
'theirs'), there are some telly heroes on British software.
Mirrorsoft have a package of four Mr Men games
aimed at the 4 - 8 years bracket under the general heading
of Here and There with the Mr. Men. These do
not avoid the 'educational' tag however. Mr Tickle's
Jigsaw Puzzle, Mr Tickle and Mr Grumpy, Mr
Lazy and Mr Men versus Mr Tickle are all
aimed to lead children in 'an amusing and stimulating
way' to grasp the concept of 'left and right'. The accompanying
booklet is designed to be read by a parent as a story
to go with the games. Unlike the US Gold offerings,
the Mr Men games use rather simple, though brightly
coloured, blocky graphics, and I would have thought
the tasks may become repetitive to kids rather quickly.
For instance, in Mr Lazy you guide a worm up
and along the branches of a tree in order to reach an
apple and knock it down on Mr Lazy's head as he snoozes
under the tree. No doubt this very simple exercise might
amuse a four year-old for a while, but I very much doubt
whether it would appeal to an eight year-old for more
than one go.
The
important difference between these games and those from
the Walt Disney stable lies very much in the graphics
as well as the ideas, and in that department there's
little doubt that US Gold score heavily.
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In
GB64 we have the following Mr.Men games: (1)
Mr Greedy's Ice Cream Hunt, (2) Mr Silly's
Hat Game, (3) Mr Forgetfull's Wardrobe Game
(4) Mr Forgetfull's Letter Game. However these
come from the other Mirrorsoft/Primer Software package
of the same era titled "First Steps with the Mr.
Men".
Mirrorsoft's/Primer
Software's "Here and There with the Mr. Men"
package contains the following programs: (1) Mr Tickle's
Jigsaw Puzzle, (2) Mr Tickle and Mr Grumpy,
(3) Mr Lazy, (4) Mr Men versus Mr Tickle.
Currently none of these is in Gamebase.
If
you have this compilation of educational games, pls
let us know!
Htmlized
by Dimitris
Kiminas (31 Dec 2003)
The 1st screenshot above was originally printed by mistake
in the review of the game "Zyto". The "Zyto"
review is in page 16 of the same ZZAP! issue.
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