Game Classification

Alpha Beam with Ernie Children's Computer Workshop (U.S.A.), Atari (U.S.A.), 1983  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

RETRO SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

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Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Licensed title
  • Educative message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment
  • Education

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old / 3 to 7 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:

Similar games


Alpha Beam with Ernie Ernie's ship has run out of fuel and it is up to you to help him.

Use the buttons of the controller to move your ship left or right and beam letters to the correct slots on Ernie's ship. Once all the letters are in place, Ernie can fly away.

This game helps kids learn to recognize letters and match capital letters to lower case and recognize easy-to-confuse letters.

The game manual also contained a read-aloud story.

For ages 3-7. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Atari 2600

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