Who Is Oscar Lake? 1996
- Point-and-click, Adventure, Educational
Released internationally in 1995 and developed by Jersey COW Software, Who Is Oscar Lake? is widely regarded as the first hybrid adventure game/language learning tool. Its simple point-and-click mechanics, liberal use of recorded speech, and mix of pre-rendered backgrounds with live action video represent common development techniques of the 1990s.
Point-and-clickAdventureEducationallanguage learninggame titles that are also questionsPC (Microsoft Windows)
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Character
Earnest, warm, cool and grave.
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Released
- December 31, 1996
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