Game Classification

Epidemic 1980  

Informations Analyses Serious Gaming
 

Classification

RETRO SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

Keywords

Purpose

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

Market

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

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old / 8 to 11 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


Epidemic Epidemic is a simulation game in which the player can set a number of starting variables and then watch in a real-time simulation what the results are.

The game simulates a disease epidemic. The disease is non-fatal and people who've had the disease become immune. The player can set the number of inhabitants of the island where the disease breaks out, the number of people initially infected and the contagion time. The simulation shows a top-down view of the island with the population randomly moving about. When infectious people come in contact with uninfected people they become infected.

After the disease has run its course, the player is presented with day-by-day graphs of what happened. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Commodore PET

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