• Platform: Hybrid Windows/Mac
• Release Date: 1995

Game Description

Learn world geography with the Peanuts gang! Players have two activities to try in this game that was released on CD-ROM in 1995. The players can put states into their proper places on a quartered map of the United States or play the Great Country Shoot.

This game, with its circus-like atmosphere, has kids launching the Peanuts gang into various countries around the world. If players manage to get the characters into the correct country, a copy of the country's flag appears in one of the blank flag spaces overhead. If not, a message appears telling them they were wrong and a sad face appears on the flag instead. Both games have two difficulty levels. ~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide

Roots & Influences

Master Snoopy's World Geography is based on the Peanuts comic strip characters, drawn by Charles Shultz. ~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide

Review: Enjoyment

Somewhat frustrating due to the lack of game explanations. ~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide

Review: Overall

Upon starting Master Snoopy's World Geography, developed by Yearn2Learn/Imagesmith, players have two choices. One is to reconstruct maps of the United States by quarters and the other is to do the Great Country Shoot.

In the first game, kids choose which area of the country they wish to start in: northeast, southeast, northwest or southwest. They can play this game with the easy or hard version. The easy version pronounces the name of the state when it is put in place while in the hard version, players must figure out for themselves what the name of the state is from a list. If the player chooses the wrong name from the list, he or she hears "unh-unh!" and they are allowed to choose again. If they choose correctly, they hear the name of the state repeated.

In the Great Country Shoot, players must launch the Peanuts gang at the countries on a spinning globe. They must click and hold the mouse button on a place on the globe to get it to stop spinning and it must be the right place for them to get the correct country. In the easier version of this game, kids are shown the continent or part of the globe on which the country is located. The Peanuts character is automatically taken to the correct country if they manage to hit that area of the globe. In the harder version, players must also correctly identify the country on the map shown of an area to get the character to the right location.

While the games are entertaining and teach geography to kids, the total lack of a manual is likely to make learning the Great Country Shoot harder. The state puzzle game is fairly self-explanatory but no such explanation exists for the Great Country Shoot. It took me a while to figure out and I'm an adult!

This game won a number of prestigious awards when it was first released in 1995, including the Parent's Choice Honor Award, Editor's Choice from Mac Computing and five stars from Compuserve. However, most kids today will find the graphics somewhat crude, looking bitmapped and slightly chunky. Though the game claims to teach kids geography from the two activities, I think children would have to play the game for a very long time to truly learn the actual location of all the countries of the world. ~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide

Review: Graphics

Somewhat crude graphically, certainly more crude than the comics they are supposed to portray. ~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide

Review: Sound

Very LOUD. Players not wishing to injure their eardrums should probably turn the sound down first. ~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide

Review: Replay Value

Players would have to play this repeatedly to truly learn anything. ~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide

Review: Documentation

None. ~ Lisa Karen Savignano, All Game Guide