NumberMaze is an educational game where players get to practice their math skills. The game consists of a number of mazes that the player has to navigate his way through to get to a castle. Viewed from a top down perspective the player moves his character by clicking with the mouse. The mazes have many doorways that the player has to go through. To pass through these the player has to solve math problems. There are also doors that are locked and for these the player first have to locate a key to open. Scattered through the mazes are also books which the player has to collect before he gets access to the castle.
Mystery Objects is a logic game for the Apple II.
The player is presented with 6 objects, and must determine which object is hiding within the mystery box. To do this, the player can use tools to measure the color, weight, size, texture, smell, and shape of the object. The player must try to guess the object with the fewest tools as possible. There are 3 levels of difficulty.
Quiz game based on the show of the same name. Up to three contestants can play at once, with gaps optionally filled in by computer AI. If three human players are engaged, then Player 1 and 2 share the first controller, with the second controller going to Player 3.
Based on the tv game show. Jeopardy! New Sports Edition provides the same gameplay as the original Jeopardy!. There are over 1000 answers. Categories include everything from the Olympic Sports, such as Gymnastics, Swimming and Track to Football, Golf and Baseball. You can play one-on-one with the computer, or challenge up to two other sports fans to a game. Three players compete against each other by coming up with the question for a given answer. There are two rounds of play each with six categories of answers, and one final round consisting of a single answer. Each correct question given can be worth from $100 to $1000 for the player to respond first, or if a daily double is uncovered the player to find it may bet up to the current amount of money they have. The player with the most money at the end wins. Jeopardy! features a high scores table so players can save their characters wins and losses, different male and female character animations to choose from, and of course a wide variety of answers and questions.
BBC Radio 1 DJ Mike Read presented a pop music quiz show, which is recreated here with questions from the 50s to the 80s. You can play against the computer or another human; either way, select a specialist subject and 2 team-mate graphics (all representing white people). The overall style and presentation are very similar to Elite's earlier A Question of Sport license. In the first round you select one of twelve random questions from the Jukebox, each of which has four options. A correct answer earns you two points, while an incorrect answer gives your opponent the chance to steal for one point. In round 2 you get three clues to name a star - you get three points for guessing from one clue, two points from two, and one point if you need all 3. In round three, choose an Easy question (from your category) for one point, or a Hard one (from someone else's) for two. Round four asks you to Guess The Year that a set of events happened in, with scoring the same as round 2. Then comes the quickfire round - answer up to nin
Wheel of Fortune was the first game based on the TV game show for the NES. It was developed by Rare and released on the same month as their NES Jeopardy! adaptation. Rare would follow it up with two more NES adaptations of the show: Wheel of Fortune: Junior Edition and Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition.
It follows the rules of the show, where people spin a wheel and then try to solve a hangman puzzle, either guessing a consonant or spending their reward money to buy a vowel. Up to three human players can play via a pass-and-play system. Players must input their answers within a time limit using the in-game text parser.
Jeopardy! is a turn-based puzzle game developed by Sharedata and released by Sharedata in 1987. Jeopardy! runs on MS-DOS. This version of Jeopardy! was the first release based on the TV game show of the same name.
Based on the television game show, Family Feud pits two teams of five against one another as they attempt to guess the top answers to survey questions. The winning team advances to the Fast Money round where they have two tries to guess answers to five questions as a timer counts down. Players can challenge the computer or a friend and name their team.
All About America is an educational game that teaches children American history and geography as well as the English language. It consists of two main activities: history lessons and map reading skills. Both of these can be played by one or two players.
A very basic translation of the popular game show Wheel of Fortune, where you guess letters until you can guess the phrase. This CGA version has three old-school rounds of Wheel of Fortune (where the puzzles are simply "Phrase", "Title", "Person", etc.) and then a bonus round. You can compete against two computer players or up to three people can play against each other.