Treasure Mountain! is an educational video game published by The Learning Company in 1990 for DOS , Windows and Macintosh . It teaches children aged five to nine reading, basic math , and logic skills. Treasure Mountain is the third installment of the Super Seekers series.
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44-409: A number of classical pieces as background music. The music heard in the game's introduction is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 's " Solfeggietto ". The theme heard in the outdoor levels is a combination of two of Beethoven 's contredanses, WoO 14: No.1 and WoO 14: No.3 . The theme heard in caves comes from the first movement of J. S. Bach 's Keyboard Concerto no. 1 in D minor . Level Three features
66-419: Is a side-scrolling educational adventure game where the objective is to restore the destroyed rainbow bridge by collecting gems throughout the cove. To find the gems, the player must correctly answer simple math and reading questions asked by starfish to get clues about where they are hidden. It earned generally positive reviews as well as an award at the 1993 Summer Consumer Electronics Show. Treasure Cove!
88-575: Is a side-scrolling educational adventure game. The player's objective is to plug pipes that are leaking oil into the ocean. The game takes place in the fictional Treasure Cove, which is being polluted with byproducts from experiments done by the Master of Mischief, a common antagonist in The Learning Company's Super Seekers games . The player takes on the role of the Super Seeker, whose job is to plug
110-439: Is a subgroup of the company's Super Seekers games . All the games in this series are math and reading comprehension oriented educational adventure games aimed at younger children. Games in the treasure series all have the same three stage gameplay format where a special object, whose location can be deduced by answering questions, is needed to reach the next stage. In lieu of original musical scores, Treasure Mountain! employs
132-532: The Super Solvers games , steals the kingdom's crown and hides all of the castle's treasures. The player takes on the role of the Super Seeker once again, whose job is to find the treasures and remove the Master of Mischief from the throne. The objective of Treasure Mountain! is to find the hidden treasures and return them to the chest in the castle at the top of the mountain. The mountain consists of three levels. Players cannot climb higher until they have found
154-507: The "Treasure" series all have the same three stage gameplay format where a special object, whose location can be deduced by answering questions, is needed to reach the next stage. In 1994, an enhanced and more Windows-friendly version was released on CD-ROM. In 1996 the game was updated to version 1.1 with better graphics and sound. In 1997 it was updated again to 2.0 with enhanced graphics and sound. Treasure Cove! has received indifferent to positive reviews. Lisa Savignano of Allgame gave
176-474: The Gigue from J. S. Bach's English Suite No. 4 in F major, BWV 809. In 1994, a version with enhanced sound and graphics was released on CD-ROM. In 1997 an updated version of the game was released on CD-ROM (version 2.0 Mac/2.01 Win) with even better graphics. Treasure Mountain! was later released in a software bundle package with both Treasure Cove! and Treasure Galaxy! under the name Treasure Trio! . This
198-412: The Master of Mischief. When players reach the top, they deposit all treasures found into the castle's treasure chest and are given a prize - one of the treasures discovered during the game - as a reward for completing the three stages. This prize is kept on display in the clubhouse, showing how many times players have ascended the mountain. From this point, players may exit the clubhouse and start again from
220-471: The Rainbow Bridge. After finding gems and plugging leaks in each of the three areas, the player will surface and add the gems collected during the most recent game to the total gem count. When the player has collected a certain number of gems, the player goes up in star rank and the Rainbow Bridge is extended further. Higher star ranks means that there are more gems to find, the riddles are more difficult, and
242-520: The bottom of the mountain. When a certain number of treasures have been deposited into the castle's treasure chest, players will go up a star rank. At higher ranks, the game becomes more difficult, as there will be more treasures to find, harder riddles to answer, and elves that steal magical coins by using elf dust. Treasure Mountain! is the first of four games in The Learning Company's "Treasure" series along with Treasure Cove! , Treasure MathStorm! , and Treasure Galaxy! . The "Treasure" series
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#1732855342676264-419: The clues. Players may search behind these objects by dropping a magic coin. If the objects match all three clues, the key to the next level will appear. If the objects match only two out of the three clues, one of the stolen treasures will be revealed. After players find the key on each of the three levels of the mountain, they can enter the castle. At this point, players must climb up a maze of ladders, avoiding
286-452: The fish which steal light move faster and are harder to avoid. Treasure Cove! is one of the four games of The Learning Company's "Treasure" series along with Treasure Mountain! , Treasure Mathstorm! , and Treasure Galaxy! . The "Treasure series" is a subgroup of the company's Super Solvers series. All the games in this series are math and reading comprehension oriented educational adventure games aimed at younger children. Games in
308-507: The game 3.5/5 stars, stating that "it's a fun game young kids will love to play". Abandonia reviewers felt the same, giving Treasure Cove! a rating of 3 out of 5. Users at Home of the Underdogs gave Treasure Cove! two thumbs up saying that it is "another enjoyable release from The Learning Company, featuring the same attractive graphics and gameplay as their previous 'Super Solvers' games" and went on to describe Treasure Cove! as "one of
330-490: The key to unlock the next level. To find the key, players must get clues about its location by answering elves' riddles. When players use a net to capture an elf carrying a scroll and answer the riddle correctly, they will receive a clue consisting of a number, shape, or description about where the key to the next level is hidden, as well as any magical coins the elf is carrying. In the background, there are several groups of objects that have characteristics that can be matched to
352-732: The kids to go onward until they finally get all 300 treasures and win the game...the game can be played over and over again". Users at Home of the Underdogs gave Treasure Mountain! the Top Dog Award, an award given to games "(they) feel are severely underrated...to distinguish truly great underdogs from the pack". They gave it a thumbs up, claiming that "children will be captivated by the game's vibrant graphics...They will spend many hours solving puzzles, doing math problems, and looking for hidden treasures-- sharpening their math skills without even realizing it". Abandonia users gave more mediocre reviews, but said that "collecting toys and getting to
374-431: The next level can be somewhat addicting". Treasure Cove! Treasure Cove! is an educational computer game published by The Learning Company in 1992 for MS-DOS , Windows and Macintosh PCs. It is aimed at children ages 5 to 9 and is intended to teach children reading, math, and oceanography . Treasure Cove! is the 9th installment of The Learning Company's Super Seekers games . Treasure Cove!
396-468: The other "Treasure" games in the Super Seekers games, take place in a magical realm called Treasureland. The game takes place on a mountain called "Treasure Mountain". Treasure MathStorm! , a later release, takes place on the same mountain. As the game opens, the Master of Mischief, a common antagonist of The Learning Company 's Super Seekers games and the counterpart of antagonist Morty Maxwell in
418-410: The pipes leaking oil and rebuild the destroyed bridge to the island by finding gems in the cove in order to stop the pollution at its source. The cove has three separate areas that the player must visit and collect gems to plug the pipes which leak "goobies" by finding the pufferfish and dropping it on the opening. If the player hits a goobie, one light unit is taken from them. To find the pufferfish,
440-434: The player must gather clues by catching orange starfish and answering their riddles. There are three clues per stage, each a single descriptive term such as "three", "swimming", or "eels". The player must then shine their flashlight on the group of animals that are described by clues to obtain the pufferfish. Shining light on a group of animals that matches two of the three clues will reveal a gem, adding points towards restoring
462-503: The title Treasure Mountain . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Treasure_Mountain&oldid=1094158441 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Treasure Mountain! Treasure Mountain! as well as
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#1732855342676484-458: Was one of the first software bundle packages ever sold. Treasure Mountain! has received mediocre to positive reviews. Computer Gaming World gave the game four out of five stars, calling it "an easy-to-play, visually appealing, non-violent arcade-style game for beginners" with some reading ability. Lisa Savignano of Allgame gave the game 4.5 stars out of 5 stating that " Treasure Mountain may be somewhat repetitive, but each level will impel
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