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Revision as of 17:22, 2 January 2021

Honey Hunt
Honey Hunt Manual Front Cover
Honey Hunt Manual (Front Cover) [1] [2]
Publisher(s) Milton Bradley
Original Retail Price $49.95 (USD)
Programmer(s) Tim Scully
Part# PHM 3156
Format(s) Solid State SoftwareTM Command Module
Release 1983 (4th Quarter)

Honey Hunt is an educational software created by Milton Bradley for the TI-99/4A home computer system. Honey Hunt requires the Solid State Software Command Module, and can optionally use the Milton Bradley MBX System. It was programmed by Tim Scully. It was released as part number PHM 3156 during the fourth quarter of 1983 for a retail price of $49.95 (USD).


Gameplay

Advertising Blurb

Front Cover of Manual

Prediction and patterning skills for "bee-ginners."

Fun Fact

Review

Manual

Note to Parents

Milton Bradley and Texas Instruments, two companies that create entertaining and educational products for your child, work together to bring you Bright Beginnings™ games. Bright Beginnings is a special software series that allows your child to discover, explore, and learn. Milton Bradley and Texas Instruments believe that video activities should do more than bring bright smiles-they should also bring bright ideas. That's why Bright Beginnings combines fun and learning so successfully.


The Bright Beginnings cartridges are designed to be age appropriate, introducing the proper learning tool at the right time in your child's life. The games encourage your child to interact with the computer as creatively as possible through exploratory learning activities.

There's something special in Bright Beginnings for you, the parent. Included in this instruction booklet is a Discovery Guide that tells you exactly what learning skills your child is developing. The Discovery Guide also goes one step further and suggests additional related activities that you and your child can do together. All of the activities include helpful hints on how to encourage your child to develop learning skills by exploring his or her environment.

Honey Hunt was developed by Joyce Hakansson Associates Inc., an independent production company. The JHA approach to fun and learning blends excellence from a number of disciplines. Their design team consists of artists, writers, musicians, child development experts, programmers, and an academic advisory board all working together to create interactive learning games that build on your child's inherent love of play.

The Theme of the Game

Discovering when events occur is what Honey Hunt, a game of skill and strategy, is all about. When playing, have your child look carefully at all the suspenseful events that occur in the meadow and see if he or she can recognize a certain pattern in them. Your child can polish up his or her prediction skills and score points, too!

Your child helps bee friends collect nectar drops from flowers ( ones with open petals). He or she can control the bee's movement with either the MBXjoystick, the TI Joystick Controllers, or the TI keyboard. Each nectar drop he or she collects is worth points. Your child avoids a dangling spider and its sticky web, and other uninvited guests in the meadow (like a big bear with a sweet tooth for honey and a dragonfly that dives and darts all over).

Have your child watch the screen closely, listen to the delightful music and sound effects, and try to discover what happens when on the Honey Hunt.

Two Ways to Play Honey Hunt

This Honey Hunt cartridge can be played with the Texas Instruments Home Computer or with the Texas Instruments Home Computer and the MBX Expansion System. The MBX Expansion System adds new dimensions to your Texas Instruments Home Computer. This booklet contains instructions for using both systems. Instructions for each method are separated by a bar format. The first bar, which is color coded in blue, tells you how to play the game with your MBX Expansion System. The second bar tells you how to play the game with your Texas Instruments Home Computer alone.


TI Home Computer with the MBX Expansion System

The MBX console plugs into your Texas Instruments Home Computer. Refer to the set-up instructions in your MBX Expansion System booklet to properly connect the systems.

Here's What the MBX Expansion System Includes

  • MBX console with built-in action keypad
  • Triple-axis analog joystick
  • Headset microphone (not used with this cartridge)
  • Power supply
  • Fully-illustrated instruction booklet

Playing Honey Hunt with the MBX Expansion System

  • Triple-axis analogjoystick allows total maneuverability of screen objects.
  • Action-input keypad with its own colorful overlay allows for quick response and flexible play.
  • Speech Synthesis allows you to hear phrases, prompts, and sound effects that are true-to-life, well-modulated, and full of inflection.

TI Home Computer without the MBX Expansion System

  • You can play Honey Hunt and control all the action on the screen with the Texas Instruments Joystick Controllers (sold separately) or the Texas Instruments computer keyboard or a combination of both.
  • Speech makes the game more exciting. You need the Texas Instruments Solid State SpeechTM Synthesizer (sold separately) to activate speech capabilities.

Getting Started

After the cartridge title screen appears, your child sees a short demonstration of game play. This is the DEMO MODE. He or she can sit back and watch all the action. After the DEMO MODE, the computer asks if your child wants screen instructions. Read the instructions below for the system you are using.

Honey Hunt DEMO MODE screenshot

TI Home Computer with the MBX System

  1. After viewing the DEMO MODE, the message, TO START PRESS GO appears. Have your child press GO on the MBX console. The title screen and DEMO MODE continue to replay if the proper key is not pressed. If the title screen reappears, your child presses any key on the TI computer keyboard to reach the instruction option screen. If the DEMO MODE reappears, your child presses the GO key on the MBX console to reach the instruction option screen.
  2. When the message DO YOU WANT INSTRUCTIONS? appears, have your child:
Press YES on the MBX console for step-by-step instructions. He or she can follow all the directions on the screen and then press the TRIGGER button on the MBX joystick to start the game.
Press NO on the MBX console to bypass the instructions and start the game.

MBX Keypad Cover Sheet

TI Home Computer without the MBX System

  1. After viewing the DEMO MODE, the message, PRESS ANY TI KEY TO PLAY appears. Have your child press any key on the TI computer keyboard to reach the instruction option screen. The title screen and DEMO MODE continue to replay if a TI key is not pressed.
  2. When the message DO YOU WANT INSTRUCTIONS? appears, have your child:
Press Y on the TI keyboard for step-by-step screen instructions. He or she can follow all the directions on the screen. Then, to start the game, press the FIRE button on the Joystick Controller; or press the Q key or the SPACEBAR on the TI computer keyboard.
Press N on the TI computer keyboard to bypass the instructions and start the game.

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