Category:Look and Read

Look and Read is a series of five educational games that were developed by Longman Logotron for BBC Worldwide (known as BBC Enterprises until 1995) and released for the BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, and RISC PC between 1987 and 1996; they were based on five serials from the BBC drama series of the same name (which premiered on BBC2 in 1967 and ended in 2004) but the 32-bit games are now only playable if you still own the original disks and an actual Acorn Archimedes or RISC PC to play them on (given that no ADF files of them were ever made for use in Acorn 32-bit emulators).


 * Geordie Racer (BBC Micro, 1987): The first title in the series was based upon the show's twelfth serial, and the player was guided through it by the show's mascot Wordy; the character of Sal the Sea Serpent, who appeared in the tenth and last challenge, was also created specially for the game.


 * Through the Dragon's Eye (BBC Micro, 1989): The second title in the series was released two years after the first one and based upon the show's thirteenth serial; the player was guided through it by the eponymous dragon Gorwen, who had gone on a quest to the land of Widge with his friends Boris, Scott and Amanda, to save the world of Pelamar after their life force, the Veetacore, had exploded (and without it, Pelamar was fading away).


 * Sky Hunter (BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, 1991): The third title in the series, which was the first to be released on the Archimedes, was released two years after the second one and based on the show's seventh serial (which originally aired in 1978); from this point onwards, the player was not guided through the games by a character, and in this one, they had to help three children, Jackie, Butch and Trevor, stop two bird thieves, Mr. Trim and Badger, from selling a peregrine falcon illegally. This was also the first title in the series to ask the player if they wanted sound at the beginning.


 * Earth Warp (Acorn Archimedes, 1994) and Spywatch (RISC PC, 1996): The last two titles in the series were released three and five years after the third one (and based on the show's fifteenth and seventeenth serials); for the fourth one, the player had to help an alien from the fictitious planet Gia named Ollie on his mission to save the Earth from a terrible explosion, and for the final one (which, like the serial itself, was set in the Second World War), they had to train to be a spy at Westbourne Hall (the character of "Chad", a bald-headed man with a big nose who became popular during the war, would also peer over the player's responses during the challenges, and told them if they were right or wrong by nodding and shaking his head).