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Funnels and Buckets

1984 - Funnels & Buckets is a shareware math-based educational title developed and published by Data Sage. The gameplay entails popping mathematical problems before they fill one of your four buckets. If you…

31 December 1984

Funnels and Buckets is a video game, released 31 December 1984 on DOS.

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What Funnels and Buckets is

Funnels and Buckets was released in 1984. It is available on DOS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

1984 - Funnels & Buckets is a shareware math-based educational title developed and published by Data Sage. The gameplay entails popping mathematical problems before they fill one of your four buckets. If you answer the problem correctly you will be rewarded points and the equation will be eliminated. Filling the bucket with wrong answers will end the game. Players can choose from six different game speeds, and math problems include multiplication; division, addition, and subtraction.
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How it plays

Its themes are educational.

What it launched against

Funnels and Buckets launched on 31 December 1984, within three weeks of Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike and Bomb Jack.

Released around the same time: Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike, Bomb Jack.

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When did Funnels and Buckets come out?
Funnels and Buckets was released on 31 December 1984 for DOS.