The Adventures of Valdo & Marie

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The Adventures of Valdo and Marie
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Publisher(s) Ubi Soft
Release1996
Genre(s) Adventure, educational

The Adventures of Valdo & Marie (French : Les 9 Destins de Valdo) is a 1996 adventure educational video game for Windows by Ubi Soft Entertainment Software.

PC Team praised the game's commitment to being an educational historical adventure. [1] Joystick felt it offered a beautiful experience to players. [2] Personal Computer Magazine thought the game offered a "highly entertaining learning environment". [3]

The game sold 100,000 copies in France alone. [4]

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References

  1. "Les 9 destins de Valdo" [The 9 destinations of Valdo] (in French). PC Team. Archived from the original on 20 June 2023 via download.abandonware.org.
  2. "Le site des anciennes revues informatiques - www.abandonware-magazines.org". www.abandonware-magazines.org (in French). February 1997. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
  3. Personal Computer Magazine. Vol. 17. PC Communications Corporation. 1998.
  4. Fernández, Ángel Luis Sucasas (2017-09-14). "El escritor de las mil y una plumas | Matz en los videojuegos". El País (in Spanish). ISSN   1134-6582 . Retrieved 2019-09-02.