Agent USA was developed by Tom Snyder Productions and published by Scholastic in 1984 for the Atari 8-bit, Apple II, Commodore 64 and IBM PC, with the declared intent of teaching U.S. geography, time zones and state capitals without it being too obvious. The plot excuse is deliberately absurd: a giant mutant television, the "Fuzzbomb," turns people into static, and the title's agent travels by train from city to city to rescue them, using real geographic clues to navigate.
It's one of the better-executed examples of early-80s educational software: the press of the time noted that it managed to entertain without sacrificing curricular content, something many "edutainment" titles of the following generation failed to match.
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