Skipper & Skeeto: The Great Treasure Hunt
A Danish edutainment point-and-click adventure game set in a castle. The player directs Skipper and Skeeto, a mole and mosquito, as they try to find a treasure hidden in the castle. They have one hour to find…
Skipper & Skeeto: The Great Treasure Hunt is an adventure developed by Ivanoff Interactive, released 31 December 1997 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Skipper & Skeeto: The Great Treasure Hunt is
Skipper & Skeeto: The Great Treasure Hunt is an adventure game developed by Ivanoff Interactive and released in 1997. It was published by bhv Software GmbH & Co. KG. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Macromedia.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A Danish edutainment point-and-click adventure game set in a castle. The player directs Skipper and Skeeto, a mole and mosquito, as they try to find a treasure hidden in the castle. They have one hour to find the treasure or the castle will be demolished. As one hour is too little, the player can discover invisible "forgotten moments" by scanning the screen with a magnifying glass. The game has small minigames centered around subjects such as the solar system, stars or the periodic table . Most of the game is about exploring the castle, collecting items and using them to get forward. At the end of the game there is a maze. The game is second game of the francise, having very loose ties with…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are educational, fantasy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Skipper and Skeeto series
Skipper & Skeeto: The Great Treasure Hunt is the second of 17 entries we hold in the Skipper and Skeeto series. It arrived 2 years after Skipper & Skeeto: Tales from Paradise Park. The next entry was Skipper & Skeeto: The Revenge of Mr. Shade in 1998.
What it launched against
Skipper & Skeeto: The Great Treasure Hunt launched on 31 December 1997, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo and Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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