Math Circus: Act 1
Math Circus: Act 1 is an educational game for children that teaches maths. All of the game's activities are based around setting up and managing a circus with twelve puzzles and activities in total. Each one…
Math Circus: Act 1 is a puzzle developed by Greygum Software, released 31 December 1993 on Acorn Archimedes, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Math Circus: Act 1 is
Math Circus: Act 1 is a puzzle game developed by Greygum Software and released in 1993. It is available on Acorn Archimedes, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The twelve activities are: moving around balls around a grid of seals to make the balls match their stands, a timing exercise for a trapeze artist to cross one or multiple gaps, rescuing a magician from a witch and a monster with different attack patterns, a time exercise around reaching the circus in a determined amount of time taking into account traffic lights, shooting a ball into a bucket by adjusting the angle and the force of the gunpowder, math riddles based on combining multiple clues, a balancing act based on the position and number of different people on a bar, calculating ticket sales, measuring the medicine for elephants, spatial reasoning by determining the coordinates of a…
How it plays
Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Math Circus: Act 1 launched on 31 December 1993, within three weeks of Doom, Mega Man X, Theme Park and Windjammers.
Released around the same time: Doom, Mega Man X, Theme Park, Windjammers.
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