Game Classification

Healthkit EC-1 (Educational Analog Computer) Heath Compagny (Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA), 1960  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

RETRO SERIOUS PLAY
(Exergame)

Purpose

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

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Education

Audience

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

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Play-based
(designed without stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
SELECT : explanation of this brick
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327_1.jpg The computer was described by Heathkit as "Excellent teaching aid for a course in computer electronics - Vividly illustrates the electronic analogies to mathematical problems - Handles problems as complex as fluid flow, damped harmonic motion, and flight of a projectile in a viscous medium"

Computer problems could be 'programmed' by inserting several patch cords into the problem-board sockets and thus linking in chain several built-in components together.

[source : http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=787]

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