Agent USA
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Agent USA is a geography enhancement game that centers around a character that travels by train to different U.S. cities. The object of the game is to find the "FuzzBomb" which turns ordinary people into "FuzzBodies". You plant crystals which regenerate into newer crystals, and when you build up 100 of them and touch the FuzzBomb, the nation is saved!

Trivia

Part of the copy-protection routine for the PC port of Agent USA relied on a clever attempt to socially-engineer crackers: The program attempted to see if sector 0 was writable, and if so, proceeded to write junk all over it, rendering the diskette unbootable. Why is this clever? Because the original factory diskette was write-protected (in fact, it lacked a notch completely) and the check would always fail on a factory original.

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Description from the packaging:

There's a train to catch, a nation to save and a lot of thinking to do!

Urgent! The FuzzBomb is on the loose, turning the nation's citizens into helpless FuzzBodies. You, Agent USA, have been called in on the case. You must use your superior intelligence to find and stop the FuzzBomb before the entire nation is fuzzed! You will receive secret crystals that will protect you. But watch out- the FuzzBomb is after you too!

This package contains a top secret information file. Use the facts you'll find in it to locate and disarm the dangerous FuzzBomb. To find the FuzzBomb, you must ride the train network that crisscrosses the country. For the latest information on the Fuzz situation, make sure you check in at the InfoBooth in each capital city.

Learning opportunities:
Map Reading
U.S. Geography
Critical Thinking
Math Skills

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