Wyatt Earp's Old West is a computer game developed by Grolier Electronic Publishing

Grolier

Grolier was one of the largest U.S. publishers of general encyclopedias, including The Book of Knowledge , The New Book of Knowledge , The New Book of Popular Science , Encyclopedia Americana , Academic American Encyclopedia , and numerous incarnations of The Electronic Encyclopedia .Grolier was an...

 in 1994 for the IBM PC.

Plot

Wyatt Earp's Old West is an educational game within a multimedia encyclopedia. The package includes a “Shootout” game which is a stand-up arcade shooter. The bulk of the program involves wandering through the town, looking at things and listening to the narrator explain about life in the Old West. When the player leaves a building, the narrator asks a question related to something he mentioned about the room, earning money for correct responses.

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1995 in Dragon

Dragon (magazine)

Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...

#215 by Jay & Dee in the "Eye of the Monitor" column. Both reviewers gave the game 2½ out of 5 stars.

External links

• Wyatt Earp's Old West at MobyGames
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