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1. #CROSS COUNTRY CANADA 2 GAME HOW TO#
2. #CROSS COUNTRY CANADA 2 GAME ARCHIVE#

Making wise decisions along the way will result in a successful trip. Players drive an 18 wheeler truck picking up and delivering commodities across Canada while learning about provinces, cities, territories and more. And while he might use metaphors about garbage to talk about his pay at that time, the CrossCountry Canada experience provided a rare, oddly patriotic relief from the ennui of elementary school life on the ancient computers that populated Canadian school boards. Crosscountry Canada 2 is an educational simulation software program for children ages 913. It is the sequel to the first Crosscountry Canada game.

#CROSS COUNTRY CANADA 2 GAME ARCHIVE#

Playing CrossCountry Canada even for a few minutes on the Internet Archive brought back some great memories of going on potash runs, via MS-DOS, through the Canadian landscape. Crosscountry Canada 2 Longplay Crosscountry Canada 2 is a game created by Didatech Software Ltd. By the 90s, gaming software had become the big thing with the introduction of game boxes that supplanted desktop computers as the main target for game companies."ĭespite Bacal's somewhat gruff comments about his experience coding CrossCountry Canada, it seems the nobility of making edutainment software for kids has left him with a strong impression about the possibilities of software development. Big companies mostly shied away from school software and many small independent software companies competed against each other to fill the void. He clarified that point by saying: "There was a 'newness' about educational software during that era and sales were low compared to today's video game sales.

#CROSS COUNTRY CANADA 2 GAME HOW TO#

But I suppose trying to figure out how to play the damn game is where the edutainment comes from.īacal said programming edutainment for "little pipsqueaks" was a "garbage-heap of money" in terms of salaries for programmers in the mid to late 80s. He told me the game intentionally did not provide its users with the language needed to control the game, and that the developers caught a bit of flak for that. Bacal's primary duty in the development of CrossCountry Canada was to port the original version from Mac to PC. The game had beaten me.įrustrated, I shut down the game and got in touch with one of the game's programmers, a blues artist from Vancouver named Jimfre Bacal. I was stuck in an infinite feedback loop. It told me I had to get to a gas station to get my truck repaired, but I couldn't get to the gas station without getting my truck repaired. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out what the hell the game wanted me to do.