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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
legendaryweredragon
Since: Apr, 2013

I remember that I played an Edutainment Game that was designed to teach children about asthma close to 20 years ago. I don't know why we even had it since nobody I knew at the time had asthma. The plot of the game is that a supervillain named Mucus Airgone is using a machine to release huge amounts of asthma and allergy triggers into the atmosphere apparently just For the Evulz and you have to defeat his minions in order to find the pieces of the code to stop his machine. Each of the minions are anthropomorphic asthma and allergy triggers such as mold, cigarette smoke, car exhaust (that one was also a basketball player for some reason), and cat dander. To defeat each of them you have to correctly answer questions asthma and living with asthma and once you take the code from them Mucus shows up and kills or otherwise punishes them for failing. After finding all the code pieces you have to fight your way through into Mucus's lair and enter the code to stop his machine before it goes off and ruins the atmosphere (although the countdown to stop it never reaches 0 so it's impossible to actually fail this part). Entering the code causes the machine to work in reverse and clean up the atmosphere and suck up Mucus himself too. In the end credits we see that all the villains are still alive and we learn what they all did afterwards. I think the title was something like Asthma: Quest for the Code but I want to be sure. I remembered this game when I was looking at the Alphabet Soup Cans trope page and I think it is a very good example of that trope.
Edited by legendaryweredragon