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LewieP
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Ok, I don't know if you guys will get this, it is pretty damn obscure.
So, I remember playing an edutainment game in school. It was year 2 of primary school, so I was 9, making it 12 years ago, so 1997. It probably wasn't brand new when I played it.
It was mostly a text based adventure game. I remember one area was a house, with a puzzle that involved you having a limited inventory. At one point there was a room with a tap in it, and you had to fill up a bottle of water.
I remember there was a difficulty selector, and it determined how many items you could carry at once (I think the options were 5 or 3).
It also had mini games dispersed throughout it. I think there was a maze (shown top down in 2D), and multiple choice quizes.
It was on a "Computer", I have no idea what it was, but it had a monitor and a keyboard. I played it in school, and the teacher just called it a computer.
Any ideas?
So, I remember playing an edutainment game in school. It was year 2 of primary school, so I was 9, making it 12 years ago, so 1997. It probably wasn't brand new when I played it.
It was mostly a text based adventure game. I remember one area was a house, with a puzzle that involved you having a limited inventory. At one point there was a room with a tap in it, and you had to fill up a bottle of water.
I remember there was a difficulty selector, and it determined how many items you could carry at once (I think the options were 5 or 3).
It also had mini games dispersed throughout it. I think there was a maze (shown top down in 2D), and multiple choice quizes.
It was on a "Computer", I have no idea what it was, but it had a monitor and a keyboard. I played it in school, and the teacher just called it a computer.
Any ideas?
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Oh yeah, it may have had a light "You should recycle" theme to it.
For example, Ecoquest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoQuest)
Oregon Trail
or worse.
Incidentally, could it be Ecoquest?
The red keys are usually the memory jogger, I played a few adventures games on it at school myself but this was almost 20 years ago, maybe have a look through:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:BBC_Micro_and_Acorn_Electron_games if you are reasonably sure its the bbc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny%27s_Garden
If it may have been on the BBC Micro then you should check out http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/ I would imagine it would be a good start.
Beat'd: In thought and post... I was just thinking it could be Granny's Garden too.
Steam, PSN, XBL, Xfire and everything else JamesDM
The three main producers of adventury-type games were Sherston (and the graphics sound a bit too inferior for them, they had pretty good graphics for the BBC), 4Mation (It's these I know the least about; I'd only played a couple. Flowers of Crystal, Adventure Island and Dust are the three that I recall, and only very loosely) and Anita Straker (usually maths-based ones)
On a hunch, I'd suggest you might want to check out 4Mation stuff, since I don't recognise it and I'm most ignorant about them!