Inspired perhaps by Brain Training, Smart Educational Games doesn't quite live up to expectations, as Krisse discovered in the AAS review . Still, there's a maths game that could teach your kids a thing or two, a pairs game to exercise your memory, a tiles puzzle and a good geography quiz spoiled by a horrible interface.

"Smart Games is basically four games in one: Math (obviously some spelling problems there ;-) ), Memory, Puzzle and Earth. All of the games except Earth are available in two modes, for children and for adults, and this mode is set on the title screen by pressing 5.

All of the games and menus run under an intuitive and well-implemented keypad system, where you press the number next to a particular icon to access its function. For example pressing 0 (next to a red X or blue backwards arrow) always exits or goes back. Each gameplay screen contains a row of four icons at the top that have everything you need: Mute, High Scores, Restart Game (which also changes the picture or background) and Exit." 

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