Pepper's Adventures in Time (1993)
Pepper's Adventures in Time is a 1993 adventure video game.
Dr. Fred's time machine has scrambled American history, and a girl named Pepper is the one sent back to unscramble it. Sierra's edutainment adventure drops her into the colonial past to set events right, solving history and logic puzzles as she goes, and every so often handing the controls to her dog Lockjaw for a stretch only a dog can manage. It keeps the studio's friendly, no-fail spirit, wrapping real dates and figures in a cartoon caper. A lesson dressed up as a rescue mission across the eighteenth century.
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What is Pepper's Adventures in Time about?
Dr. Fred's time machine has scrambled American history, and a girl named Pepper is the one sent back to unscramble it. Sierra's edutainment adventure drops her into the colonial past to set events right, solving history and logic puzzles as she goes, and every so often handing the controls to her dog Lockjaw for a stretch only a dog can manage. It keeps the studio's friendly, no-fail spirit, wrapping real dates and figures in a cartoon caper. A lesson dressed up as a rescue mission across the eighteenth century.
When was Pepper's Adventures in Time released?
Pepper's Adventures in Time was released on 1 February 1993.
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A few thoughts on Pepper's Adventures in Time
For more time-hopping mischief, Time Bokan runs a similar gag of bumbling heroes chasing history off the rails, and No Time for Nuts packs the same slapstick-with-a-time-machine energy into a short. Light, quick, and happy to teach you something while you laugh.
Chase a time machine gone wrong
Pepper has to mop up the mess a broken time machine made of history. That premise, hopping eras to fix a timeline someone scrambled, shows up in playful cartoons and one of the funniest adventure games ever made, where three heroes get flung across the centuries.
Try more Sierra edutainment quests
This is edutainment through and through, using history and logic puzzles to move the story. Its Sierra cousins pull the same trick with different subjects, wrapping real lessons inside adventures charming enough that you forget you are being taught.
Grow up with point-and-click classics
When you have aged out of the lessons, the format itself still delivers. These are the point-and-click greats to graduate to, from island comedy to a fairy-tale kingdom to a supernatural mystery, all built on the same click-and-solve rhythm Pepper taught you.