Isaac Asimov's Science Adventure
{{Short description|1992 educational video game}}
{{orphan|date=August 2019}}
Isaac Asimov's Science Adventure is an educational interactive CD-ROM. The game was later updated as Isaac Asimov's Science Adventure II. It is part of Knowledge Adventure's Adventure series.{{cite web|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13818694-400/|title=Computer Games: Games for the players who like to think a little bit harder. You struggle to survive in the war, the ant colony or on your own world. Build incredible machines, adventure in space or sharpen up your psyche.|publisher=}}
Production and content
Isaac Asimov died in April 1992, and this collaboration between his works and the developers behind the program was one of his last projects before he passed.{{cite web|url=https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue147/98_Isaac_Asimovs_Scien.php|title=Isaac Asimov's Science Adventure|first=Keith|last=Ferrell|website=www.atarimagazines.com}} The game's articles were based on Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery.{{cite web |last=Davis |first=Ziff |date=13 September 1994 |title=PC Mag |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WKaekAHjQ1EC&q=3D+Dinosaur+Adventure&pg=PA166 |publisher=Ziff Davis, Inc. |via=Google Books}} The game teaches topics ranging from roller coaster acceleration to planetary orbit to pulleys.
The central hub of the program is a reference screen, which displays text panels, pictures, and timeline, and a globe. The designers described the program as an educational software toy - a sort of intellectual playground, to encourage curiosity but with no agenda. The virtual science museum has over 150 rooms, and over 1000
illustrated, interactive, and interlinked articles by Isaac Asimov.{{cite web |last=Bekman |first=Stas |title=6.1 Computer Software (Isaac Asimov) |url=http://stason.org/TULARC/education-books/isaac-asimov/6-1-Computer-Software-Isaac-Asimov.html |website=stason.org}}
Critical reception
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