Software:Zaark and the Night Team

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Zaark and the Night Team
Developer(s)EduConcept
Publisher(s)Maxis
Platform(s)Windows
Release1995
Genre(s)Educational, Adventure

Zaark and the Night Team is a 1995 series of two multimedia educational CD-ROMs subtitled: The Quest for Patterns and The Search for Symbols.[1][2][3][4] It was developed by EduConcept and published by Maxis as part of their brand Software Toys For Kids.[5]

Critical reception

The Sydney Morning Herald wrote that the title was a "neat idea" that effectively incorporated information from different subjects.[6] Obscuritory felt it was one of Maxis' "less-renowned and harder-to-explain" titles.[7] Children's Software Revue deemed it "a program were going to need to spend some time with to fully understand".[8] The Washington Post wrote "good intentions are lost to a miscalculation of young attention spans".[9] The Jerusalem Post felt it was "intelligent and entertaining".[10] AllGame gave The Quest for Patterns a rating of 3.5 out of 5 and called it "[...] a good game that has an equal mix of learning and fun."[11] They gave The Search for Symbols the same rating and wrote: "Voices are what carries this game and will keep a childs attention."[12]

Legacy

Documents about this series are currently being held at the Computer History Museum.[13] The game was discussed as part of SimEverything: Lessons in Curious Game Design from Maxis, panel about the history and philosophy of Maxis presented at the 2017 MAGFest.[7]

It was included in the Power to the Little People Collection alongside Sim Town and Widget Workshop.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Buckleitner, Warren (September 1995) (in en). School Tools - The best software to boost your child's learning. Working Mother Media. https://books.google.com/books?id=r5Glppyo5bEC&dq=%22Zaark+and+the+Night+Team%22&pg=PA75. 
  2. ↑ Maxis Electronic Entertainment Expo, May 1995, Summary of Products; The Software Toys Catalog; News releases | 102710196. Maxis. 1995. https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102710196. Retrieved 2019-09-05. 
  3. ↑ (in en) Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademarks. U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office. 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=NxTRAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22zaark%22+%22EduConcept%22&pg=RA1-PA331. 
  4. ↑ Keizer, Gregg (1996). The Family PC guide to homework. New York: Hyperion & Family PC. ISBN 978-0-7868-8206-9. http://archive.org/details/familypcguidetoh0000keiz. 
  5. ↑ Media, Working Mother (September 1995) (in en). Working Mother. Working Mother Media. https://books.google.com/books?id=r5Glppyo5bEC&dq=%22zaark%22+%22maxis%22&pg=PA75. 
  6. ↑ "Work masquerading as play" (in en). The Sydney Morning Herald: p. 43. August 8, 1995. http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/120337877/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Blog" (in en-US). p. 5. https://obscuritory.com/category/blog/page/5/. 
  8. ↑ (in en) Children's Software Revue. Active Learning Associates. 1993. https://books.google.com/books?id=QgYIAQAAMAAJ&q=%22zaark%22+%22maxis%22. 
  9. ↑ "IF YOU CAN'T DO . . .". The Washington Post. 1995-09-27. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/technology/1995/09/27/if-you-cant-do/01bba25d-50df-4dfb-9ce9-4c0af91c5231/. 
  10. ↑ "CD-ROM commemorating Rabin now available". 1996-01-21. p. 5. https://archive.org/details/TheJerusalemPost1996IsraelEnglish/Jan%2021%201996%2C%20The%20Jerusalem%20Post%2C%20%2319179%2C%20Israel%20%28en%29/page/n3/mode/2up?q=intelligent+entertaining. 
  11. ↑ Sutyak, Jonathan. "Review - Zaark and the Night Team: The Quest for Patterns". All Media Network. http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=14062&tab=review. 
  12. ↑ Sutyak, Jonathan. "Review - Zaark and the Night Team: The Search for Symbols". All Media Network. http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=14063&tab=review. 
  13. ↑ Maxis Electronic Entertainment Expo, May 1995, Summary of Products; The Software Toys Catalog; News releases. Maxis. 1995. https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102710196. 
  14. ↑ "Order Form". PC Zone (Dennis Publishing) (50): 128. May 1997. http://archive.org/details/PCZONE050. 



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