Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat

Mia's Science Adventure

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Developer(s) Kutoka Interactive
Publisher(s) Kutoka Interactive
Series Mia's Big Adventure Collection
Engine Macromedia Director
Platform(s) Windows , Macintosh
Release date(s) 2000
Genre(s) Educational
Mode(s) Adventure Mode, Activities Mode

Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat is the second title of the Mia's Big Adventure Collection software series created by Kutoka Interactive. Released in 2000 in Canada and the United States, the game teaches sciences to children between 6 and 10 years old.[1]

Adventure

Mia lost her mother's hat to the rat Romaine. The player helps her on a quest to find it, buy it back and return home safely.

Activities

The game's 12 educational activities teach about plants and their parts; animals, their habitats, eating habits and classification; weather, clouds; the solar system; earth science; the human body and its systems; heat energy; properties of matter fossils; electricity and magnetism.[1]

Critical reception

Mia's Science Adventure received positive reviews from the Los Angeles Times, USA Today.com, eToys.com, Parent's Choice,[2] National Parenting Center,[3] Review Corner[4] and others on account of the value of its educational contents, graphics, story and appeal to children.[5]

Reception

Reception
Review score
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Review Corner[6]
Award
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Review CornerAward of Excellence[6]

The game received several awards such as the National Parenting Center's "Seal of Approval", the Coalition for Quality Children's Media's "Kids First Endorsement", Parents' Choice's "Gold Award".[7]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat". Kutoka.com, retrieved on 2009-06-17
  2. ↑ "Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat - Fall 2000 Software". Parent's Choice, retrieved on 2009-06-17
  3. ↑ "Seal of Approval Winner Fall 2000 - Mia - Just in Time!". TNPC. 2009-06-17
  4. ↑ "mia's science adventure (Romaine's new hat)". Review Corner, retrieved on 2009-06-17
  5. ↑ "Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat - Press Review & Awards". Kutoka.com, retrieved on 2009-06-17
  6. 1 2 "Mia's Science Adventure - Review Corner". August 2000. Archived from the original on April 5, 2004. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Mia's Science Adventure Awards". Kutoka.com, retrieved on 2009-06-17
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