Dr No.'s Division Incision Derision

By Steve McCrea

Genre: Arcade: Espionematics

An outstanding rendition of the James Bond theme beeps out followed by a not too shabby depiction of Mr Bond on the cutting slab with Dr No looming over him (Hang on…wasn’t Goldfinger the one with the laser?  No matter).

“Do you expect me to talk?”

“No Mr Bond.  I expect you…to DIVIDE!”

This sums the game up pretty much, our fearless hero’s wedding tackle is under threat and can only be saved by YOUR skill with division.  Some are easy, some are hard, and each wrong answer inches the laser ever closer to the biffins bridge.  There is no respite or endgame either it seems, James is condemned to endless mathematics or castration….choices choices.

119 divided by 7?  With a laser inching towards your gonads?! I tell you it can’t be done.

...not even by the impeccable Mr Bond who must now be wishing he was Dr Bond.

Tipshack: repeatedly watch Moonraker until you hate James Bond so much that you don’t care what happens to him.

HACK PACK:  Correct every time: Line 50: remove INPUT g and replace with LET g=f1

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Factor Tractor

By Steve McCrea

Genre: Arcade Math

Do you like Maths?  Do you like Tractors?  Do you like fast paced arcade fun?

If you answered yes to the first two questions then FACTOR TRACTOR is the game for you!  This rather nice intro screen tells us what the game is about, and sports possibly the best rendering of a tractor using UDGs ever (in fact – if readers want to email me more UDG DATA of Tractors I’ll post them in the blog and end of year digest).

Boffins among you will sail through this game (or whatever the word is for a tractor sailing – chug I suppose) but as a bit of a duffer I struggled.  I remember numbers like 54 and 63, and that two small numbers can be multiplied together to make them, but under the pressure of a tractor race I fall apart and fail.

Factor Tractor is crap, but you’ll feel ashamed when you find yourself actually getting into the race.

Tipshack: Learn your times tables!

HACKPACK: remove the IF AND before the LET in line 160, and you’ll have hexane in the fuel tank.

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