A well-known shoe company of the 80s teams up with a well-known environmental organization of the 80s to present you this economical simulation. Commercial advertisement mixed up with promotion for a 'good cause' - very, very questionable.

Your task is to manage a 'natural resort' for elephants somewhere in Africa. The situation is quite different from reality, though. There is no trouble with getting cheap land, no fuss with bureaucracy, it's no problem finding sponsors and even making profit is a piece of cake!

Basically, all you do each turn is increase the size of your land, build more wells, admit a few more tourist buses and answer a few easy trivia questions about elephants.

The game is obviously made for kids. Cute graphics with funny small animations, easy success. However, also no longtime challenge, because the purely economic branch of the game can be figured out even by pre-school children and the questions start repeating themselves after 10 minutes.

The 'educational' aspect is certainly a good one, and there is indeed a little to learn here, but - as mentioned before - the logos of the 'elefanten' show company popping up again and again do leave a sour taste, especially considering the 'impressionable' target audience. Sure, everything has to be financed some way... but... seriously... I mean...


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