Microzine #38

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. 38 contains:* Computer Stuff: data disk initiation

• Exploring Simple Machines: the player learns about levers, pulleys, and inclined planes in an attempt to bring a barrel up the stairs to a peanut butter processing machine.

• Letter: stories from the editor and people who have written into Microzine

• Math Mall: a simplified version of Math Shop, where the player must travel to 3 different stores and quickly answer math questions. At each store, the player must choose the amount of a fraction or a decimal required to fulfil the desired amount of product. The player must act quickly, because if the line in a store becomes too long, customers become frustrated and leave. Fifty angry customers, and it's game over.

• Outer Space Adventures in Government: a multiple choice adventure designed to teach the Constitution of the United States. You are a student aboard the Madison Voyager, a spaceship designed to see how well students can learn in space. The ship is struck by a meteor, and all communication with the outside world is cut off. The students crash land on Neptune's moon Miranda. The students soon descend into anarchy, but with the help of a copy of The U.S. Constitution and their robot helper Dolley, the player must establish a working form of student government with a Supreme Court, Congress, and presidency.

• Picture This: Eskimo Escapade: the player must find the ten items that don't belong in a picture of the high arctic, and watch as they are transformed to appropriate items.