Connections

Connections is based on the TV show on The Learning Channel, which traces human political, cultural, religious and social history as a chain, linked by technological discoveries or inventions. In the game, there is a computer program you must fix, by finding connections that bind its world together.

Added March 8, 2020
Published By Some Interactive
Learning Channel, The
Valkieser Publishing
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Your goal is to collect items representing innovations throughout history and put them into a chain of connections (Windows) from mobygames.com
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Far West (Windows) from mobygames.com
More connections (Windows) from mobygames.com
James Burke (Windows) from mobygames.com
Italians like hamburgers (Windows) from mobygames.com
A sextant (Windows) from mobygames.com
The bad guy playing the organ (Windows) from mobygames.com
Meet Galileo (Windows) from mobygames.com
Visit the desert (Windows) from mobygames.com
The Pharaoh taking a bath (Windows) from mobygames.com
The game's main menu. This is displayed at the start of every . It is followed by a screen giving the player the choice to play as male or female. (Windows) from mobygames.com
The game has an in-built hints system that can be disabled at the start of a new game. Hints will eventually tell the player what needs to be done but won't perform the actions (Windows) from mobygames.com
The bad guy makes his first appearance (Windows) from mobygames.com
The first time the player enters James' study he appears and explains the plot. Someone has accelerated the natural rate of chaos and the web of reality is in peril (Windows) from mobygames.com
When an item has been collected it can become part of the inventory (shown on the right), or part of the chain (shown below), or both. James pops up to talk about some items as they are collected (Windows) from mobygames.com
This lady is the Apothecary. She has items for sale. (Windows) from mobygames.com
Now that's what I call a good 'To Do' list! Get some clean clothes, get the TV fixed and then restore reality. (Windows) from mobygames.com
Clicking on an item that's part of the chain brings up a short video sequence. Here James is explaining how carbon from oil lamps was used to produce carbon paper (Windows) from mobygames.com
This is the repairman. The mark on his face is a speech bubble indicating that the player can 'talk' to him (Windows) from mobygames.com
One of the game's help screens. These can also from the main menu and from within the game (Windows) from mobygames.com
Having collected a pencil James explains the link between graphite, diamonds, crystals and x-rays (Windows) from mobygames.com

Year of Release:
1995

Genre(s):
Traditional

Graphic Style:
2D FMV

Camera View:
First-Person

Control Type:
Point and Click

Other Tags:
Educational Speech

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