Tour Mickey Mouse's Home Town Via Super Nintendo 07/05/94 NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1994 JUL 5 (NB) -- Video games are not just for shooting space invaders, they can also be educational, and High Tech Entertainment has introduced another entry in its Mickey Mouse pre-school titles that is claimed to be as educational as it is fun.
"Mickey's Playtown Adventure: A Day of Discovery" is a Super NES video game designed for kids four to seven years old. High tech Chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) Henry Kaplan says the ageless mouse is an ideal character with which to educate children. "He is already an easily recognizable, lovable friend," according to Kaplan.
Playtown takes children through a "fun-filled day" of educational discovery as they explore Mickey's neighborhood. High Tech spokesperson Richard Krueger told Newsbytes the games include directions, shape and color matching, letter and number games and learning experiences like making a flower bloom.
Playtown is scheduled to ship in the third quarter with a suggested retail price of $69.95.
Other titles from High Tech include Mickey's Ultimate Challenge for Super NES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy and Game Gear Systems that involves the child in solving the riddle of the Kingdom of Beanwick by completing a series of five magical puzzles. Challenge levels for the program are adjustable to the age of the player.
The company also publishes Mickey's Adventure in Numberland for ages three to six, that teaches number recognition, counting and adding, as kids help Mickey rescue stolen numbers from a character called "Big Bad Pete." The $44.95 game includes digitized speech technology that lets Mickey speak to the player.
Mickey's Safari in Letterland ($49.95 for the Nintendo entertainment System) helps pre-schoolers improve their alphabet recognition skills as they travel from the Yukon to the Caribbean in search of the lost letter tablets. Letterland also includes digitized speech.
(Jim Mallory/19940705/Press contact: Bob Griffin, Robert E. Griffin Inc. for High Tech Entertainment, 212-255-8491; Reader contact: High Tech Entertainment, 212-941-1224 or fax 212-941-1521)