I don't know about you, but I've always wanted to experience the Matter of Britain in the form of an adventure game. But it's also a really interesting experiment in edutainment that pushes the envelope much harder and farther than its Sierra Discovery siblings in terms of writing, puzzles, and gameplay. The game is admittedly a lot to take in, especially when you consider how the humor, parody, and facetiousness almost certainly fly right over younger heads.

Pepper must help Franklin and the people of Philadelphia to get back on the right track, for the sake of America (cue flag-waving).Īt the end of each chapter is a short history quiz, and there's also a 'truth' button that helps you learn historical facts as you move around.

Franklin, now a hippie bum who preaches a 'Doctrine of Mellowness,' has abandoned reason and left Philadelphia in the clutches of the evil colonial Pughs, who levy unfair taxes and steal dogs and generally suck. Fred screws up the past by sending a huge dose of the 1960s 'Age of Aquarius' philosophy to afflict one Benjamin Franklin. Aspiring young reporter Pepper and her dog Lockjaw are sent back to the year 1764 by Pepper's psychotic inventor uncle Fred. The game takes a page out of Maniac Mansion/Day of the Tentacle and turns it into edutainment-like DOTT, there's even a bit of Ben Franklin kite-flying. Playing Pepper's Adventures in Time is a) extremely cringe in 2020 and b) strange and hilarious for a non-American who doesn't know the minutiae of US history (I learned about the Liberty Bell through It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia).

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