Game Classification

The Electric Company Word Fun APh Technological Consulting (U.S.A.), Mattel (U.S.A.), 1980  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

VIDEO GAME
(Edugame)

Keywords

Purpose

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

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
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


The Electric Company Word Fun This title proposes three different word based educational games :

* Crosswords: This game is similar to Scrabble.

* Letter Hunt: each player controls a monkey in order to collect letters and to spell three words within the given time limit.

* Word Rockets: the players control a rocket in order to collect and shoot vowels. The goal is to fire an appropriate vowel into the empty space of 50 floating words.

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Intellivision

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