MacMan And The Great Escape
Meet MacMan, the canny Scot who takes children on fun-packed maths adventures. MacMan and the Great Escape teaches children about shape and area, and about the effects of rotation and reflection. MacMan is…
31 March 1984
MacMan And The Great Escape is a video game, released 31 March 1984 on ZX Spectrum.
What MacMan And The Great Escape is
MacMan And The Great Escape was released in 1984. It was published by Sinclair Research. It is available on ZX Spectrum only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Meet MacMan, the canny Scot who takes children on fun-packed maths adventures. MacMan and the Great Escape teaches children about shape and area, and about the effects of rotation and reflection. MacMan is guarding some prisoners trapped behind a wall. As if by magic, holes of different shapes and sizes appear in the wall. Children help MacMan stop his prisoners escaping by selecting shapes of the appropriate area, then manipulating them by rotation and/or reflection to fit each hole. If they are too slow, the prisoners break out and terrible things happen to MacMan! The program features suberb special graphics effects, and a range of six difficulty levels. This software was developed by…
What it launched against
MacMan And The Great Escape launched on 31 March 1984, within three weeks of H.E.R.O. and Boulder Dash.
Released around the same time: H.E.R.O., Boulder Dash.
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When did MacMan And The Great Escape come out?
MacMan And The Great Escape was released on 31 March 1984 for ZX Spectrum.