Juego-Matica

A whole generation of Argentines knows Juego-Matica simply as the mummy game. You play a young pharaoh inside a pyramid who has to do arithmetic to get out, matching sums to their answers across platforms and staircases while a mummy keeps closing in. Difficulty ranges from plain addition and subtraction up to fractions, powers and roots.

It was written by Juan José Clotet, founder of the Argentine publisher PC3 Programs, and it spread mainly through schools. It was a fixture of Argentine primary-school computer rooms all through the 1990s and into the early 2000s, so most people remember it from maths lessons rather than from a home PC.

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