''Granny's Garden'' is an educational
adventure game
An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and/or Puzzle video game, puzzle-solving. The Video game genres, genre's focus on story allows it to draw ...
for the British
BBC Micro
The British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by Acorn Computers in the 1980s for the BBC Computer Literacy Project. Designed with an emphas ...
computer, released in 1983. It served as a first introduction to computers for many schoolchildren in the United Kingdom during the 1980s and 1990s. According to the 4Mation webpage about the original version, it was the reason many teachers decided that computers had a real place in education.
The software is still available in its original
and updated formats.
Created by Mike Matson for 4Mation, the game takes place in the Kingdom of the Mountains. The aim is to find the six missing children of the King and Queen, while avoiding the
evil witch, by solving puzzles.
References
External links
Granny's Garden*
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1983 video games
Acorn Archimedes games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
Children's educational video games
Commodore 64 games
IOS games
Classic Mac OS games
MacOS games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Windows games
Video games about witchcraft
ZX Spectrum games
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