This page details a series of VT32 educational programs that are believed to have been developed by Nice Code Software.
Index • Intellivision & Atari ports • Nature Clan games • Casino and casual games • Olympic games • Disney's Math Quest with Aladdin level clones • 8-bit educational programs • VT32 educational programs • NES/Famicom hacks • Famicom cartridge games
Plug and play console games: 0-A • B • C-E • F • G-L • M-O • P • Q-S • T-Z
This software set was seemingly commissioned for use on Play Vision Portable systems in the early 2010s, generally branded under the name "PVP Wish Game". Known PVP console models featuring the games include IDs "DW-889", "DW-999", and "PE-A". The DW-889 and DW-999 consoles use imitation PlayStation Portable cases, and come with six faux-cartridges containing the educational software; they also feature a built-in game list comprised of standard (pirated) Famicom/NES titles. The PE-A console is a larger, flat device designed to look like a schoolbus, and features a keyboard; this console does not use cartridges. An additional console (using a PE-A-like form factor) was released by DreamGEAR as the "My Arcade Learning Pad".
In addition to the four aforementioned consoles, some of the more "game-like" titles from this set are included on more typical VT32-based consoles from Touch Game Player, DreamGEAR and Thumbs Up!. Such consoles often reuse aspects of the menu interface that seemingly originate from the PVP Wish Game consoles. These releases have their game lists predominantly comprised of 8-bit and VT03 Nice Code titles.
The software itself is notable for using entirely sampled audio (including voice narration). Some of these games, along with the console menus, use music from MapleStory, particularly the "Henesys: Floral Life" theme. The programs are split into six categories: "Children's Song" (erroneously labeled "Children's son" on cartridge labels), "Story Castle", "English ABC", "Family of Numbers", "Logical Thinking", and "Game Park". The Game Park label features twelve games that are not directly educational, nine of which are VT32 conversions of preexisting VT03 titles by Nice Code. The software between controller-based and keyboard-based consoles appears to be the same, with the latter having some programs modified to utilize the keyboard layout.
Most releases of the games/software use a child narrator with an American accent. There are also variants that use an adult male narrator with a British accent; for unknown reasons, these versions appear to have less dialogue than the "American" equivalent.[1]
Due to a particularly high amount of generic educational software of this type, only the more notable and "game-like" titles are listed on this page (e.g. the titles typically reused on other VT32 consoles). For the complete list of games from this set, see the respective section on the index of Nice Code games.
English ABC programs[]
Catch the Apples[]
Catch the apples of the corresponding letter requested.
Merry Christmas[]
Catch the presents and throw them down the chute.
Family of Numbers programs[]
The Frog Home[]
A math game based on Frogger. To enter the home at the top of the screen, the frog must land on the log with the equation equal to the answer. The game uses a rendition of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", despite having no Christmas or Winter theming. The graphics and some aspects of the gameplay are also shared by a Wellminds VT168 game known as Crossing the River.
Got On[]
Guide the dragons onto the train in numerical order. The train graphics are modified from the Famicom/NES game Challenger.
Logical Thinking programs[]
Animals Rescue[]
Guide the animals to their correct habitat.
Small Sketchpad[]
A virtual coloring book. Some versions feature a page of Tweety Bird.
Game Park programs[]
Cut Fruit[]
A game based on Fruit Ninja conceptually, but the player controls a visible ninja who can only move/slice the fruit across the bottom of the screen. The player graphics are unaltered sprites of Ginzu from the arcade version of Captain Commando.
Guard Radish[]
Clone of the tower defense Flash game Game Over Gopher; the graphics are virtually identical to the original. Contrary to the title, the player is represented as guarding a carrot; placing obstacles in order to defeat/block the gophers before they reach the carrot. The game's music is taken from Carrot Fantasy, an otherwise-unrelated tower defense game.[2]
The original Game Over Gopher game was intended to teach graphing coordinates at a middle school grade level.[3] While Guard Radish retains this educational factor to some extent, its mechanics are greatly simplified in comparison.
Jan-Ken Punch[]
Clone of the second level of the iOS/Android game Hardest Game Ever 2; the graphics and sound effects are virtually identical to the original. The player must answer which player would win (or if both players draw) in an automated game of rock-paper-scissors.