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Real Lives

Real Lives is an educational game in which you take the role of a person in just about any country in the world. You are given a random country, gender, name, and family and must go through life. You can…

31 December 2001

Real Lives is a simulator developed by Educational Simulations, released 31 December 2001 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Real Lives is

Real Lives is a simulator game developed by Educational Simulations and released in 2001. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Real Lives is an educational game in which you take the role of a person in just about any country in the world. You are given a random country, gender, name, and family and must go through life. You can choose your education, leisure activities, job, and also make many moral choices along the way. Lives can be lived in about an hour or two, so you can experience life from someone else's point of view just about any time you want.
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How it plays

Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Real Lives launched on 31 December 2001, within three weeks of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams, Ikaruga and Sonic Advance.

Released around the same time: Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams, Ikaruga, Sonic Advance.

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When did Real Lives come out?
Real Lives was released on 31 December 2001 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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