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MacMan And The Caber Eater

Meet MacMan, the canny Scot who takes children on fun-packed maths adventures. MacMan and the Caber Eater teaches addition and subtraction and shows some of the relationships between numbers. By adding and…

31 March 1985

MacMan And The Caber Eater is a video game, released 31 March 1985 on ZX Spectrum.

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What MacMan And The Caber Eater is

MacMan And The Caber Eater was released in 1985. It was published by Sinclair Research. It is available on ZX Spectrum only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Meet MacMan, the canny Scot who takes children on fun-packed maths adventures. MacMan and the Caber Eater teaches addition and subtraction and shows some of the relationships between numbers. By adding and subtracting, children help MacMan to build up a caber, piece by piece, and then toss it. Easy? Not when the dreaded Caber Eater appears on the scene and tries to steal the pieces away! The program has five levels of difficulty, a built-in assessment device, and a 'help' sequence for children having difficulty. This software was devised by educationalists and has been tried and tested in schools and homes. The program was wrtitten by Intelligent Software, creators of high quality…
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What it launched against

MacMan And The Caber Eater launched on 31 March 1985, within three weeks of Commando, The Rats and Starion.

Released around the same time: Commando, The Rats, Starion.

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When did MacMan And The Caber Eater come out?
MacMan And The Caber Eater was released on 31 March 1985 for ZX Spectrum.