Magic Clock
A companion to Magic Maths that uses speech and animated clocks to teach reading analogue and digital time.
Image credits and source
Original cover / promotional artwork
Credit: Players — artwork belongs to its respective rights holders
Source: The Oliver Twins archive
Game at a glance
- Status
- Classic
- Released
- 1985
- Platforms
- Amstrad CPC
- Genres
- Educational
- Developer
- The Oliver Twins (original development)
- Publisher
- Players
Development and publication
Development: The Oliver Twins (original development). Publication: Players.
The named development credit refers to the original or specifically identified version. Other ports and later re-releases may have different development teams.
Making the game
Having produced Magic Maths so quickly we thought another simple educational game that could be produced using Panda Sprites and the Speech system was a game to help teach reading the time from both analogue and digital clocks.
We’d visited Switzerland for our summer holiday that year and had seen the classic Swiss clocks and thought this style of clock face would add some personality to the visuals.
We thought Magic Clock made a great sequel to Magic Maths and we should be able to convince Players to pay us and publish this too – which they did.