Serious Game Classification

Mall Maniacs (Mega Game I) Unique Development Studios AB (International), AddGames Advertainment AB (Sweden), 1999 Download it Now !

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Classification

RETRO SERIOUS GAME
(Advergame)

Keywords

Advergame - Racing - Real-time - Shopping - Simulation

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Marketing & Communication message broadcasting

Market

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

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 3-7 / 8-11 / 12-16 / 17-25 / 25-35
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 DESTROY : explanation of this brick MANAGE : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick RANDOM : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick SHOOT : explanation of this brick
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Mall Maniacs Mall Maniacs is an advertising tie-in shopping game with four game modes: The main game mode (where you need to buy all the groceries marked on your list before your opponents), random mode (where you're randomly introduced to a grocery you must find), a quiz mode (you must answer questions about groceries in order to pick them up) and the shopping cart race.

You can choose from ten characters, each with their own stats to enter the race for groceries in five levels: Mini Market, Jungle, Oriental, Aqua and the Future.

The game also supports network play. [source:mobygames]

This game was released in Sweden and Finland as free of charge for one day, then it become retail, don't know about the U.S. version, just know that could get at Pamida stores.

Some days ago discovered that they(SWE and FIN versions) become freeware, so now we can play this awesome game that mixes racing and shopping elements all in one, too bad the companies gone bankrupt.

Now you can play the game in English too! Just enter the site bellow and go get 'em!

Distribution : Internet - Free
Platform(s) : PC (Windows)

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