Microzine #5
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. 5 contains: What's Inside - A Look at this episode of Microzine*
- Pirates of the Soft Seas - You and your friend are on a Caribbean island vacation, but what you really want to be doing is playing computer games. While out exploring the island, you come across a band of software pirates, who have lost their 5 chests of pirated computer games. Can you outsmart and escape the pirates, and find the hidden software before they do?
- Story Teller - A program designed to create stories up to 10 pages in length using graphics and illustrations
- Amazing Robot II - The player must navigate a robot through a maze or other challenges by typing in movement commands
- Fences - A 2 player game on a 9 x 9 or 16 x 16 grid, the player draws lines and attempts to make squares. The player scores a point for each square completed, and a computer opponent is available.
- Computer Stuff - Data disk initiation program
- What's Next? - A look at future episodes
