Classic edutainment franchise Math Blaster is making it’s way to the DS this spring thanks to a publishing deal with Majesco Entertainment.
Math Blaster in the Prime Adventure combines adventure gaming with mathematical puzzles that has you fighting off an army of robots… robots with math skillz. The game will put your addition, subtraction and multiplication skills to the test and includes four player battle mode and challenge and adventure modes.
I applaud this, seriously. Just the other day, while attending a dinner with Ken Levine and some other folks during PAX, I got into a discussion with a group of them about educational games for next gen consoles.
I think that the three platform owners should get behind bringing a few educational games to their various downloadable game systems.
They should do this for two reasons.
Things are really looking up for parents who want to buy their children video games for Christmas but don’t necessarily want to buy them games they’ll enjoy, as venerable PC edutainment software creator Knowledge Adventure partners with Majesco in order to bring their properties to the console and handheld market. “This partnership is part of our strategic vision to transition the company from educational software to a multi-faceted kid’s entertainment company,” said Knowledge Adventure president & CEO David Lord. “Expanding our product footprint into this new category will enable us to create a market for future products–including our leading JumpStart® brand–on console and handheld platforms and capitalise on the increasing popularity of these platforms.” The first product of this union will be Math Blaster in the Prime Adventure for the DS, introducing the 21-year-old franchise to a whole new audience. Do you smell that? That’s the smell of children’s tears on Christmas morning. It’s intoxicating!
