Review | Review – Calculator: The Game makes maths fun with ’90s nostalgia
Let’s face it, many of us used calculators for games, not maths, in school – and now this title has turned your classroom distraction into a mobile game
Simple Machine
3.5/5 stars
When I was in school – long before smartphones were in every pocket and laptops on every table – the humble calculator provided an endless source of amusement. Sometimes, our scientific calculators had simple games installed on them, but more often than not, we used carefully selected numbers to spell out amusing words.
That makes Calculator: The Game (available for Android and iOS) a funny little release, since that’s also kind of the goal. Not adding up numbers so they can be flipped over to make naughty words, but working out mathematical combinations to achieve victory. It may sounds boring, but it kept my attention for longer than I imagined, considering I almost failed maths at school.