Serious Game Classification

Gus Goes to Cybertown Modern Media Ventures (U.S.A.), Modern Media Ventures (U.S.A.), 1993  

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Classification

RETRO SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

Keywords

Adventure - Educational - History - Math - Puzzle-solving

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:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick
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Gus Goes to Cybertown This educational game is aimed at kids under eight. You are playing as the dog Gus who searches the town after his 15 "CyberBuds".

The town consists of four houses and one park. In every house you encounter a puzzle-based educational game. This includes a spelling game, and game where you have to recognize letters to avoid asteroids. Also you have to count the bubbles in an aquarium or recognize and match shapes.

In the park you can see typical clothes and items from different timelines starting at the neanderthals up to spacemen. There are also a few songs included. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : PC (Windows)

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