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Journalist

Journalist is a Swedish educational game about being a journalist and write articles for the made up news publishing company Midköpingskuriren. The game is targeted toward teenagers. Your objective is to go…

31 December 2000

Journalist is a point-and-click developed by Aniware, released 31 December 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Journalist is

Journalist is a point-and-click game developed by Aniware and released in 2000. It was published by IQ Media Nordic. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Journalist is a Swedish educational game about being a journalist and write articles for the made up news publishing company Midköpingskuriren. The game is targeted toward teenagers. Your objective is to go around asking people, look up in the official registry, and so on in order to complete your article for the day and thereby completing the mission. Every mission will get more difficult as you complete more of them, but will become easier if you don't manage to complete it that day. In order to ask people questions you have to answer their question first, challenging the player to all sorts of topics and facts. When you think you have sufficient information, you will go in to your boss'…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy and non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Journalist launched on 31 December 2000, within three weeks of Pokémon Crystal Version, Phantasy Star Online, Pokémon Stadium 2 and Quake III: Team Arena.

Released around the same time: Pokémon Crystal Version, Phantasy Star Online, Pokémon Stadium 2, Quake III: Team Arena.

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When did Journalist come out?
Journalist was released on 31 December 2000 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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