Ooops!

About Ooops

Ooops is a set of four games designed for switch access, but can also be accessed using a mouse click or the ENTER key.

The graphics are clear and basic and the animations and sound effects add fun and motivation to the game without being distracting. The entire program been designed to be as simple as possible including the installation (see below) and the options. These consist only of sound effects on/off and difficulty levels 1-3. The difficulty levels effect the speed of the game and the points earned.

Oops goes far beyond hit-and-happen and its graphics will motivate younger and older users alike. It requires a good degree of switch timing, understanding and attention skills - it's a good test of concentration!

Balloon

All four games follow the same basic principles. Use your method of transport to collect as many diamonds without bumping into something. With the balloon you have to hold your switch down constantly in order to keep the balloon in the middle of screen. If you let go of the switch the balloon starts to fall until it reaches the bottom of the screen where it will coast along until it bumps into a kite or other low-flying object.

Spaceship

The spaceship game follows the same principles as the balloon except the screen scrolls upwards rather than towards the right. Again you have to keep the switch held or the spaceship will veer off quickly to the left.

Car

This game differs from the other three as you don't need to keep the switch held down to stay on the road. This seems to make it by the far most popular of the four games.

Instead you use single switch presses to steer your car away from oncoming vehicles and towards diamonds.

Submarine

Finally the submarine game is very similar to the balloon game only with different graphics. I personally prefer to submarine as the animations of the turtle, and especially the froggy, are nicer to see than planes and helicopters!

A note on installation for users in a classroom

Ooops runs directly from the CDs without any need to run an installer. This is good in that you don't need to worry about installing it on multiple computers and it ensures that you don't breach the licence by installing it on more computers than you purchased it for. The downside is that many school network policies don't allow you to run programs directly off CDs. It is possible to fiddle with program a bit to get it to work from a hard drive or server but you'll probably need to speak to a technician about this.

Purchase

You can get Ooops! from Inclusive Technology or Liberator