Ludography
Fraction Fever cover

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.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
ColecoVision3 June 1983Worldwide
Commodore C64/128/MAX31 December 1983Worldwide

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