pendown on the BBC micro. i didnt have one of these new fangled contraptions, it was at school we were pretty much forced to use it.
does anyone remember pendown? ive asked all my support staff around my age if they remember this educational game which taught kids how to program,none of them know of it.
it was a black background with a white triangle (supposed to be a turtle aparently) drawing out all code directions you typed in, i think 'F350' might have been an example of the movement as the F woud have stood for forward and the number woud have been how many steps it goes-im certain thats how it worked.
some kids did amazing masterpieces with pendown,however my pendown work looked like id butchered it blindfolded,fed it to a cat and it coughed it back up as some sort of vile furball-i didntt understand numbers and i had a lot of trouble with letters and words so i just mashed whatever the hell was on the keyboard.
on the commodore 64 we had at home in the late eighties, my dad used to put on a game called split personalities which was puzzle based and rubbish, spy hunter,monty the mole on the run, bart simpsons vs the space mutants etc.
i remember when we had done good at junior school (which wasnt often for me,i was usualy kept sat in the head masters office on the floor the whole day while he scowled at me or in the computer room as they didnt know what to do with me) they woud hand out floppy disks with doom,canon fodder etc on-im certain these all had BBFC ratings of 15 or 18-we were all under 11 in junior school,jo frost (of supernanny and 'games cause violence in children' pseudo journal fame woud be having panic attacks).