Maruchi Akindo
Educational adventure game on which players take on the role of a young merchant who works part-time jobs across a fully explorable 3D town, from a takoyaki stand and cake shop to a butcher and antique dealer…
Maruchi Akindo is an adventure developed by NEC Interchannel, released 20 November 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Maruchi Akindo is
Maruchi Akindo is an adventure game developed by NEC Interchannel and released in 1998. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Educational adventure game on which players take on the role of a young merchant who works part-time jobs across a fully explorable 3D town, from a takoyaki stand and cake shop to a butcher and antique dealer. Each job challenges the player with a set of arithmetic problems, blending math practice into a lighthearted story about becoming the best merchant.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Maruchi Akindo launched on 20 November 1998, within three weeks of Half-Life, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus and Thief: The Dark Project.
Released around the same time: Half-Life, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, Thief: The Dark Project.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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