Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection wins Canadian Toy Testing Council Award
Kids go Ape and award Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection with a Children’s Choice Award
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MISSISSAUGA, ON, November 12, 2003 — Thanks to testing by more than 1,000 kids Microsoft Game Studios and the Canadian Toy Testing Council (CTTC) today announced that Microsoft’s Zoo Tycoon™ game Complete Collection has been awarded a coveted CTTC Children’s Choice Award.
As the only software to be named a winner in the Children’s Choice Award category, the Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection was found to be fun, innovative and the absolute best in the area of play, according to the CTTC. Children between the ages of three months and 16 years tested hundreds of toys this year and Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection came out a winner! The Canadian Toy Testing Council (CTTC) is a national, non-profit organization with more than 50 years’ experience of learning through play.
“The children of the Canadian Toy Testing Council test hundreds of toys and software each year. Being a Top 10 Children’s Choice award winner means the toy or software has not only met our stringent evaluation criteria, it’s exceeded it” says Leigh Poirier, CTTC Executive Director.
“The Council’s specially trained testing families had a ‘whale of a time’ playing with Microsoft’s Zoo Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon Marine Mania. Both younger and older children could enjoy the software, as younger players had the chance to build zoos and feed the animals while older players enjoyed the more challenging gameplay scenarios,” added Poirier, “The CTTC testing found that the software provided unlimited hours of educational fun while enhancing the skills of planning, organizing, implementing new ideas, designing and building, and increasing knowledge of animals’ habitat, terminology and more.”
With education and fun all wrapped up, you can’t beat Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection during the gift giving season. And it offers great value with the original game Zoo Tycoon and both the Dinosaur Digs and Marine Mania Expansion packs all together in one package – Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection including an all new bonus Endangered Species theme pack. The object of the game is to build a vibrant and successful zoo. Players choose from over 100 animals and 500 building materials to successfully create healthy habitats for the animals and a fun experience for the paying visitors! Animals must have proper fencing, shelter, and water and players have to hire staff to care for the animals as well. New players begin with a clear and easy to follow tutorial and then move on to more and more challenging scenarios. A successful zoo brings lots of paying visitors. Get it right and you’ll be a tycoon, mess it up and you’ll be in the monkey house!
“We are incredibly excited to have Zoo Tycoon awarded one of this year’s ten CTTC Children’s Choice Awards,” said Lisa Webber, product manager, PC games, Microsoft Canada Co. “It is a great achievement for Zoo Tycoon to have been chosen by kids for our ability to deliver fun and challenge in gameplay.”
Zoo Tycoon: Complete Collection was developed by Blue Fang Games, the creators of the original Zoo Tycoon as well as Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs and Zoo Tycoon: Marine Mania. More information about Zoo Tycoon is available at http://www.zootycoon.com. Suggested retails price for Zoo Tycoon Complete Collection is $54.95 CDN (resellers may sell for less).
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