Swamp Gas Visits the United States of America

Swamp Gas Visits the United States of America
Developer(s) Inline Design
Platform(s) Macintosh
Release 1990

Swamp Gas Visits the United States of America is a computer game developed by Inline Design in 1990 for the Macintosh.

Plot

Swamp Gas Visits the United States of America is an educational game designed to assist students with their knowledge of United States geography, for up to four players. The main character is an alien that, after departing from his mothership that hovers far above the map, flies his UFO around the U.S. The alien hovers above various states, and is quizzed about the name and capital of each state; entering the correct information allows the player into the Alien Arcade. The players select missions from a pop-up menu. Sometimes, due to a malfunction from the mothership, the alien will face a Close Encounter that must be dealt with by correctly answering a multiple-choice question regarding the alien's current location.[1]

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1992 in Dragon #178 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 5 out of 5 stars.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia & Lesser, Kirk (February 1992). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (178): 57–64.
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