Fun School

The original Fun School titles were sold mostly by mail order via off-the-page adverts in the magazines owned by Database Publications.

A decision was made to create a new set of programs, call the range Fun School 2, and package them more professionally so they could be sold in computer stores around the UK.

It was released on more computers than its predecessor including Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Amiga, MS-DOS and RISC OS.

[15] Despite its popularity among children, Fun School 2 was criticized by left-wing educationalists due to a competition element and the matter was brought to British MP Kenneth Baker.

[16] Fun School 3 is the third set of educational games, created in 1990 by Database Educational Software released for the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Atari ST, Amiga, Amiga CD32, MS-DOS and RISC OS computers.

[32] The Amstrad PCW version won the European Computer Leisure Award as "Best Home Education Package" and also got the 8000 Plus Seal of Approval.

The content of the games matched the educational material taught in schools of England and Wales in accordance with the National Curriculum.

[31] TimeTable and Exchange Rates were written in asembler, this was primarily due to the complex nature of these two games and wanting to keep the performance up to an acceptable level.

[48] Upon demand, Europress designed each game specifically with a certain major topic to add depth to spelling, maths, creativity and science, respectively and comply fully with the National Curriculum.

[49] Paint and Create was released on Commodore 64, Amiga and MS-DOS computers and has an easy interface divided into six activities aimed at younger audiences to do their own artwork.

The games were originally planned to be released in 1993 with the age ranges 'Under 5s', '5s to 7s' and '7s to 11s', but there was a delay due to the development of the subject-specific Fun School Specials.

[62] Fun School 7 is the seventh and final set of educational games, created in 1998 by CBL Technology and released on Windows.