Challenge of the Ancient Empires is an educational/adventure game that was released in 1991 by the The Learning Company. The game stimulates the mind and encourages critical thinking and deductive reasoning. The game also teaches about ancient history. The game, aside from needing quick wits also requires good reflexes.
In the game, you must make your way through four caverns, collecting artifacts along the way. Each cavern represents one ancient culture, the four creatures represented in the game are: Near East, Egypt, Greece & Rome, and India and China.
Challenge of the Ancient Empires is an educational/adventure game that was released in 1991 by the The Learning Company. The game stimulates the mind and encourages critical thinking and deductive reasoning. The game also teaches about ancient history. The game, aside from needing quick wits also requires good reflexes.
In the game, you must make your way through four caverns, collecting artifacts along the way. Each cavern represents one ancient culture, the four creatures represented in the game are: Near East, Egypt, Greece & Rome, and India and China. Each cavern has four chambers with one ancient artifact each. After you collect all four artifacts, you use them to build a puzzle that opens a door leading to the next cavern. Each cavern presents different
obstacles and puzzles to the player. After you have completed the puzzles for the four caverns, you gain access to a fifth one which presents many obstacles. After you complete the fifth cavern, you have defeated the game. The ancient artifacts that you need to look for were hidden inside the caverns by a group of pirates.
There are many obstacles in the game including conveyor belts, moving panels and others. These obstacles are part of puzzles that will provide you many, many hours of fun. There are also cave creatures that try to get in your way.
The fun parts of the game involve solving puzzles and logic problems. Successfully completing the puzzles leads you to the next part of the game. Going through logic tunnels and solving logic problems result to an increase in your character’s energy.
The graphics are simple and work well for the game and the sounds add to the value of the game. The colors are nice, and there are enough details that make the characters stand out from the backgrounds. As for the controls, they are very easy to learn so even if it is your first time to play this game, you’ll easily get the hang of it and enjoy it.
There are items that will be available to you and you can use these items to help you in your quest. There are actually three things that you can use: turbo sneakers to let you jump higher, miner’s hat which you can use to light up dark parts of the cave and the force field that can protect you against cave creatures.
This is a game that is worth downloading not just for its educational value but for the many hours children and adult can have fun with it.
