

1983 · Soup2Nuts · Educational · Puzzle
Fraction Fever
In Fraction Fever, the player's goal is to advance floors up to the twentieth with the help of his pogo stick and the Fraction Elevators located on each floor. To find them, the player needs to look for the correct fraction pictures, matching what is shown at the top of the screen, while a radar shows the layout of floors at the bottom. Incorrect fractions can be knocked down for scoring points, but this leaves holes in the floors. When the player doesn't manage to jump over these and falls down far enough or several times, the game will end. There is also a time limit to look out for, if the clock reaches zero the Fraction Elevator of the current floor cannot be reached, and the player has to jump down a floor to be able to try again.
- Released
- 1983
- Platforms
- ColecoVisionCommodore C64/128/MAXTRS-80 Model IZX Spectrum
- Genres
- EducationalPuzzle
- Developers
- Soup2Nuts
- Publishers
- Spinnaker Software
- Modes
- Single-player
- Themes
- Science fictionEducational
- Country
- United States
About
Fraction Fever is an educational video game created by Tom Snyder Productions and published by Spinnaker Software in 1983. The TRS-80 version was sold through Radio Shack. The game involves moving a pogo stick laterally on a platform to find a fraction equivalent to the one shown on-screen.
Keywords
- difficulty level
- pogo stick
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Reception
Ahoy! unfavorably reviewed the game, criticizing the graphics and "very annoying" sound and stating that "Other than the Chinese water torture, I'm hard pressed to think of a more frustrating or annoying experience for children than trying to play Spinnaker's Fraction Fever. Just ask my kids!"
InfoWorld's Essential Guide to Atari Computers recommended the game among educational software for the Atari 8-bit.
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Platform libraries
- ZX Spectrum games
- ColecoVision gamesOfficial › U.S.
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