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Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter

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Also known as
Bush Buck: A global treasure hunt Bush Buck: Eine weltweite Schatzsuche Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter Bush Buck: La Course au Trésor

This educational geography game challenges you to race a rival across 206 cities, using clues to find treasures before the villain does.

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Platform
MS-DOS
Released
1991
Perspective
Top-down
Size
463.82 KB
Version
bushbuck.exe
Rating
0 votes
Developer
PC Globe Inc.

About Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter

BushBuck Charms, Viking Ships & Dodo Eggs is an educational geography game from the early 1990s, developed by PC Globe Inc. It frames learning as a two-player competitive race to recover treasures from a villain's collection.

Gameplay involves traveling a network of air routes between 206 cities worldwide. On each visit, players gather geographical and cultural facts about the location. These details are crucial for interpreting clues that lead to specific treasures, which are tied to real-world places. Success depends on a player's ability to correlate this information with their knowledge of world geography.

Each match features 15 randomly selected treasures from a pool of 400. Players use plane tickets to travel, and the game ends when all treasures are found or both players exhaust their tickets. Victory goes to the player with the most points from returned treasures. The game offers three difficulty levels, making it challenging at higher settings by strengthening the opponent AI and reducing clue assistance.

Bush Buck: Global Treasure Hunter Screenshots

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Title screen.
The global map: Travel around the world in search for country-specific cultural items!
Here’s your initial agenda: Where are these five items?
Okay, let’s go explore the world! You travel from city to city by airplane.
On arrival, you will get a concise description of each city. Read them well to be able to identify cities based on the clues you get later.
Occasionally, you will find clues like this one, hinting to the location of an item. It’s always linked to a specific country and city. Where could this one be?
You can find up to five clues for each item. That should help you pinpoint the target city!
But there’re obstacles. Your opponents for one: You can play alone, but it’s a lot more fun against either a human or the computer AI. Both will try to find the items before you do.
Careful: If you fly into storms, you may be forced to turn back, and items on board may be damaged (decreasing their worth, you will be awarded less points).
Okay, let’s go through an example. The item list shows that we’re looking for roller blades, and a hint points us to Venice Beach. Aha!