A disk put together by a US user group for the
Christmas holidays to provide fun for all the family. Here you will find
a wide selection of programs, not Just Christmas programs, that provide
ideal family entertainment. There is a section of Christmas fun with
pictures and tunes on a Christmas theme that the kids will love,
including a nice one where you can put all the lights on a Christmas
tree with a joystick as the music plays. A bit of educational fun can't
do any harm and the CASTLE game provides just that with a challenge of
building a castle by recognising various geometric shapes or formulas,
one of the few programs for slightly older children. Pride of place on
the disk has to be a GREAT CHESS GAME that is one of the best games of
its type. It is probably not too Intelligent so it may be the ideal game
for those who are fed up with being beaten by the computer. SOLITAIRE is
a fine card game with the familiar red on black descending cards and
building foundations. A couple of games round things off with MAZERIDE
requiring you to find your way out of a maze with a 3-D viewpoint. It
has several options including leaving a trail of where you have been and
peeking at the map. Finally there is SPIES a simple text based game that
has you guessing where the spies are on a grid. Note that a couple of
the programs on this disk are also on earlier disks but as the disk has
been put together very well we decided to leave it as it is. It is nice
to see a user group taking as much care as we do over the presentation
of their disks.
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