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Search for the Black Rhino: Internet Coach

Windows - 1997
Also available on: Mac

On mysterious Enki Island, a rare Black Rhino has been captured by the Ambushers, an evil alliance of animal poachers. You have been commissioned to search for this majestic beast. Using the Internet as your essential tool to collect clues, document research, and communicate with your colleagues, you may be able to defeat the Ambushers once and for all! Due to the perilous geography of the island, now one has been successful in finding the Ambushers' hideout." Your task is to search for the rhino, searching for and analysing data with your field computer and using your Internet skills to get around the various traps and schemes of the Ambushers.

The game is an interactive adventure that encourages those aged 9+, including adults, to truly explore the features of the Internet. Rhino presents a first person view of a mysterious island. Using 3-D graphics, realistic sound, real actors and vivid animation, the player explores this strange and mysterious world by clicking in the direction they wish to go. Though the program uses a simulation of the Internet, once completed there is an option for connecting live from the program to the Internet for extended features. While using the simulated Internet to gather clues, do research and find other helpful information, the player solves the mystery of the lost Black Rhino. There's extensive zoological and geological information, and we've created over 200 Web pages for the program! Along the way the player meets many interesting characters, documents their findings and faces exciting challenges. Data analysis and critical thinking are exercised as players search, browse, send e-mail, create Web pages and browse news articles.

The game was considered lost media for many years, sought by many enthusiasts without success. It was finally re-discovered by reddit user tmack3 after years of deep searching and dedication to preserving this unique piece of educational software history.

How to Play

The ISO contains the two APTE Inc. games:

  • Search for the Black Rhino
  • Liftoff to Lizard Island

Works flawlessly on new computers.

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Windows version
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United Kingdom English
308 MB

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