A very quick entry to cover a title which is currently at large. Jeeps is an educational game which was advertised in an 1984 May edition of Home Computer Weekly.
The game was to be distributed by Regency Software, but the game doesn’t seem to have ever surfaced. The other advertised game Warrior Words has surfaced under a different company name (Micrograms) and is in Gamebase 64.
It may well just be a very obscure title, yet to be preserved – but can you help us find and preserve it?
Well – thanks to Anonymous Contributor, it seems the game DID sneak out in some form! Under the GB64 entry of Learning Numbers – there is a subgame called Jeep Jamboree that teaches maths. The screenshot of that subgame seems to match the cover art of Jeeps!
As Anonymous Contributor suggests, it seems Micrograms brought the games and renamed them for the American market. “Jeeps” is a rather non-descript name, and is also a copyrighted car brand name in the US.
I’ll hand over to Anonymous Contributor to sum everything up:
The “Learning Numbers” title screen says “Copyright 1985”, but the three subgames each have their own title screens, with years of 1983 (Jeep Jamboree), 1983 and 1984. This suggests that “Learning Numbers” could be a 1985 compilation of three separate 1983-1984 educational games, the original “Jeeps” from 1983 being one of them.
OR – perhaps the “Jeeps” advertised by Regency was a compilation in itself and “Learning Numbers” is that very compilation, although renamed. Impossible to tell without the original in hand. But the Regency ad text could hint at the tapes being multiple-programme games, e.g. “including sequential programmes” and “a FREE game on the other side”.
So overall, I’m pretty convinced the game made it out in some form, but did the original Regency releases ever make it out?
Contributions: Anonymous Contributor
