Microzine #2
Description
Microzine is an educational disk-based magazine published by Scholastic between 1983 and 1992. Each issue generally contains a simple adventure game, often with a Choose Your Own Adventure Style. Issue no. 2 contains:
- What's Inside - Overview of compilation contents
- Northwoods Adventure - The player is off camping with their family, when they wake up early and decide to go exploring. The player can either go for a hike in the woods or go on a canoe trip down down the river. Text descriptions show the journey, and the player is presented with options to travel in different directions, and how to explore the woods. The player can bring with them a walking stick, binoculars, or a compass and map. Players can end up lost in a swamp, twisting their ankle and getting rescued, breaking their canoe on some rapids, and many other outcomes.
- Melody Maker - Make music by typing in notes
- Computer Stuff - Initializing a new disk
- Ride the Wind - A hot air ballooning game where he player must control the altitude of their balloon to catch different air currents. These different currents allow the player to control the movement of the balloon. Played from a top-down perspective, the player landing the closest to the hare (goal) wins.
- Word Ladder - The player must move between two different words by changing the spelling of each word by one letter each time. Each change must make a correct word.
- What's Next? - A look at future issues of Microzine
