[{"TitleName":"Dinosaurs","Publisher":"Piper Software","Author":"Sandra Smallwood","YearOfRelease":"1984","ZxDbId":"0011408","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Sinclair User Issue 38, May 1985","Price":"£0.95","ReleaseDate":"1985-04-18","Editor":"Bill Scolding","TotalPages":132,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"EDITORIAL\r\nEditor: Bill Scolding\r\nDeputy Editor: John Gilbert\r\nStaff Writer: Chris Bourne, Clare Edgeley\r\nDesigner: Craig Kennedy\r\nEditorial Secretary: Norisah Fenn\r\nPublisher: Neil Wood\r\n\r\nADVERTISING\r\nAdvertising Manager: Rob Cameron\r\nDeputy Advertisement Manager: Louise Fanthorpe\r\nAdvertisement Sales Executive: Kathy McLennan\r\nProduction Assistant: Jim McClure\r\nAdvertisement Secretary: Maria Keighley\r\n\r\nMAGAZINE SERVICES\r\nSubscriptions Manager: Carl Dunne\r\n\r\nTELEPHONE\r\nAll departments [redacted]\r\n\r\nSinclair User is published monthly by EMAP Business & Computer Publications\r\n\r\nIf you would like to contribute to Sinclair User please send programs or articles to:\r\nSinclair User\r\nEMAP Business & Computer Publications\r\n[redacted]\r\n\r\nOriginal programs should be on cassette and articles should be typed. We cannot undertake to return them unless a stamped-addressed envelope is included.\r\n\r\nWe pay £20 for each program printed and £50 for star programs.\r\n\r\nTypeset by Saffron Graphics Ltd, [redacted]\r\nPrinted by Peterboro' Web, [redacted]\r\nDistributed by EMAP Publications Ltd.\r\n\r\n©Copyright 1985 Sinclair User ISSN No 0262-5458\r\n\r\n91,901 Jun-Dec 1984"},"MainText":"Publisher: Piper\r\nPrice: £7.95\r\nMemory: 48K\r\n\r\nThe Piper/Piccolo Dinosaurs package includes the beautifully illustrated book and is aimed at nine year olds upwards. The book is well written with short sections full of interesting facts, ideally suited for this age group.\r\n\r\nThe four programs are designed to stimulate interest in the topic. Birth of Life is an evolution simulation where you have to build at least four cells with adequate food and oxygen before they can split and evolve.\r\n\r\nWhen that task has been completed you receive the code word and can go on to the second game, Life on Land. In this game you have to answer five questions before you can play the game, which is disappointing graphically and jerky in its movements.\r\n\r\nIn Mission 1 you have to recognise dinosaur shapes, and in Mission 2 control a Pterosaur as it flies over the sea to catch fish.\r\n\r\nThe concept behind the package is good, but it is a shame that the games are not particularly exciting. One or two good games on the lines of Sinclair's Science Horizons would have been preferable to four mediocre ones.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"34","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Theodora Wood","Score":"3","ScoreSuffix":"/5"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"3/5","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]