Microzine Jr. #3

Moby ID: 163815

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Microzine Jr. is an educational disk-based magazine for students under age 10 published by Scholastic starting in 1988. Each issue generally contains a simple adventure game, often with a Choose Your Own Adventure Style. Issues also contain software to initialize a data disk, as well as letters to the editor. Issue no. 3 contains:* Fuzzy to Focused: Pictures gradually go from fuzzy to clear over several steps. The player tries to guess the picture at maximum fuzziness. There are 15 pictures in total.

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Editorial Director, Microzine
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Art Director, Microzine
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Triple-Dump Graphics Print Routines (c) Copyright 1984

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Game added May 27, 2021. Last modified March 9, 2023.