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1994 · The Learning Company · Adventure · Educational

Treasure Galaxy!

Treasure Galaxy! is an educational computer game published by The Learning Company in 1994 for both Windows and Macintosh PCs. It is aimed at children ages 5 to 9 and is intended to teach children reading, basic math, and logic skills.

Released
1994
Platforms
MS-DOSWindowsmacOS
Genres
AdventureEducationalPuzzle
Developers
The Learning Company
Publishers
—
Modes
Single-player
Themes
Educational
Country
United States

About

Treasure Galaxy! is an educational video game published by The Learning Company in 1994 for Windows, MS-DOS, and Mac. It intended to teach children ages 5 to 9 reading, basic mathematics and logic skills. Treasure Galaxy is part of the Super Seekers games.

Keywords

  • edutainment

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The goal of Treasure Galaxy! is to recover all of the crystals and return them to the Queen in her palace. To gather crystals, the player must first capture animated fireballs called "sunbeams" and answer their riddles. If answered correctly, a sunbeam will help the player decode a cipher that must be cracked in order to access the crystals hidden in the satellites. Each stage has different cipher that applies to all the satellites in that particular stage.

There are three separate stages, or orbits, of play, and the player may not move on to the next stage until he has learned the 4-digit passcode. The passcode can be obtained by completing various challenges posed by aliens that can be found in each stage. The challenges pertain to real-world scenarios such as using a calendar to find a certain date, tangrams, measuring with a ruler and measuring with a scale.

Story

After being removed from Treasure Cove, the Master of Mischief goes to Crystal City in deep space. After turning the harmless asteroids into menacing Disasteroids, the Master of Mischief attacks Crystal City and shatters its crystals. The Super Seekers are summoned to recover the crystal shards and save Crystal City from the Master of Mischief.

Development

Treasure Galaxy! is specifically designed to develop a broad range of mathematics and critical-thinking skills within an environment of interactive and engaging game play. The program helps five-to nine-year-old children build real-world mathematics skills, including identifying basic fractions, measuring length and weight, and locating calendar dates. Automatic educational leveling allows players to learn at appropriate and challenging rates for each individual activity. The program adjusts the level of difficulty, depending on the player's success.

Treasure Galaxy! , Treasure Mathstorm! and Treasure Mountain!. The series is a subgroup of the company's Super Seekers games.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows31 December 1994Worldwide
macOS31 December 1994Worldwide

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