Serious Game Classification

Prehistoric Animals REMedia Inc. (U.S.A.), REMedia Inc. (U.S.A.), 1999  

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Classification

RETRO SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

Keywords

Ecology - Educational - Game show - Geography - History - Science

Purpose

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

Market

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

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12-16 / 17-25 / 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:
MATCH : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick
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Prehistoric Animals is an educational game that explains a lot about prehistoric life during the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras. The game features hundreds of different prehistoric creatures from over ten different prehistoric time periods. There are illustrations, articles, real pictures, and even videos.

The game has five different sections for articles and videos. They include "Introduction", "Early Life", "Rise of Vertebrates", "Fossils" and "Display". It also has 10 sections to view classified groups of prehistoric species going in evolution order including Protomammals, Flying Reptiles and Ornithischian Dinosaurs.

You can look up a prehistoric creature through the database, print an article, look up an article in the index, and you can even take a quiz on different chapters. A score is shown during the quiz, but there is no difficulty level or support for highscores. [source:mobygames]

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

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