Keisan Game: Sansuu 5 & 6 Toshi

a.k.a. けいさんゲーム算数5・6年

created and published by Tokyo Shoseki in 1986-10-30, running on Nintendo Entertainment System

type: action/reflex, shooter, edutainment, puzzle
genre: Science Fiction
perspective: side view bird's-eye
player options: single player

languages: jpn

2/5

Personal review

This is the fifth and last game in an edutainment game series for the Famicom aimed at children to improve their basic math skills. From all the games this is the most difficult one, having math problems for children in their fifth and sixth year of elementary school. The game features two mini-games. The first one is split into two sections. Section one has you flying a short bit in typical horizontal shoot'em up action gameplay. Then you have to solve a mathematical problem in a room, while avoiding laser shots. In the second mini-game you control a girl in a flower field. Watering the flowers will make them grow faster and eventually become some sort of pebble. Now push the white pebbles into the correct basket (similar to Soukoban games) to solve a mathematical problem. The game is not bad as an edutainment game for kids at its time but pretty uninteresting nowadays.