Aliens in Our Food (found educational game; 1999-2002)
The game's logo
Status: Found
Date found: 6 Jul '23
Found by: Koop the Koopa
Aliens In Our Food is an educational game developed by Education and Youth Interactive Media made with MacroMedia Director 7 technology and published by The Health Education Authority and funded by the European Union. It was released on October 26th 1999 as a CD-ROM and an "interactive teaching pack" for schools to buy.
Gameplay
The game is a point and click adventure (with a few top down movement gameplay) that teaches the importance of food hygiene and how to avoid food poisoning starring with an alien named Doof and a robot named Mic-Robe. Doof has been recently eating food with unsafe hygiene conditions resulting to Doof not feeling well. It is your task to find out the problems that Doof encountered and make a sandwich by following hygiene rules. First you start shopping and collect a list of items for your sandwich, analyse how clean is Doof, prepare your ingredients and the workspace and then make that sandwich.
Availability
The game was available as a CD-ROM and "interactive teaching pack" since October 26th 1999. The game was only available for several months after the Health Education Authority (the publisher) has closed since March 31st 2000. And it also seemed that not a lot of schools had bought the game for their school computers. There was no information known about this game nor the developers of the game around the internet (maybe there was but it was taken down quickly and wasn't archived without any notice).
Discovery
Later somewhere on July 6th 2023, Koop the Koopa had found the software of the game "hidden" somewhere in a school computer, The game seemed to be installed in September 19th 2002 to that computer which is strange because back at that date the game was no longer available. The game was dumped and was uploaded in October 7th 2023 on The Internet Archive.
Gallery
Screenshot of the main menu.
