Serious Game Classification

Fun School 3: for 5 to 7 Year Olds Database Software (United Kingdom), Database Software (United Kingdom), 1990  

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Classification

RETRO SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

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Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Educative message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment
  • Education

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
Age : 3-7 / 8-11
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:

Similar games


Fun School 3: for 5 to 7 Year Olds These six small educational games star Freddy the Frog. Each uses simple controls to ensure that children can play without difficulty from the software.

Using forward, back, left and right keys Freddy must get to various important buildings as depicted on the screen. In Adding he is presented with a network of lily pads, some of which contain numbers or mathematical symbols. Land on these in the correct order to produce a correct sum. In the Toyshop, first identify toys from their names, then choose a toy at a specified price, and then combine goods to meet a specified price limit.

Electricity allows you to learn about circuits - by working out whether an existing layout will work, and modifying it so that it will. The next game involves telling the time, so as to get the prince his key. Funtext teaches information searching using a Ceefax-type environment. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Amiga - Amstrad CPC - Atari ST - Commodore 64 - ZX Spectrum

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